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Hakluyt
[ hak-lit ]
noun
- Richard, 1552?–1616, English geographer and editor of explorers' narratives.
Hakluyt
/ ˈhækluːt /
noun
- HakluytRichard?15521616MEnglishGEOGRAPHY: geographer Richard. ?1552–1616, English geographer, who compiled The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589)
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Hakluyt recommends "the Apple John that dureth two years to make show of our fruit" to be carried by voyagers.
As Hakluyt wrote, 'it demanded a prince's purse to have the action thoroughly fulfilled without lingering.'
In an unmarked grave lies the body of Richard Hakluyt, the great geographer, who died in 1616.
Laudonniere, in Hakluyt, gives the regal title among the Floridians as Paracoussi.
The most authentic account is that by Hakluyt in 1582, and though it is rather long, it is worth extracting in full.
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