Excerpt from The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt;, To the East Indies: With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office; And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), To Seek the North-West Passage The Council of the Hakluyt Society have resolved to reprint the narratives of the voyages of Sir James Lancaster, from the collections of Hakluyt and Purchas, in order that they may be brought together in one volume. Lancaster was one of the leading seamen of the reign of Elizabeth, and he commanded the two first English voyages to the East Indies. He was afterwards on the direction of the East India Com pany; he was a great promoter of voyages of dis covery and, as such, his name was immortalised by William Baffin, who called one of the chief portals of the Arctic Regions Sir James Lancaster, his Sounc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.