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brose Contarini, Ambassador from the Republic of Venice, to Uzun-Hassan King of Persia, in the years 1473, 4, 5, and 6; written by himself III. Voyages of Discovery by the Portuguese along the Western Coast of Africa, during the life, and under the direction of Don Henry IV. Original Journals of the Voyages of Cada Mosto, and Pedro de Cintra, to the Coast of Africa; the former in the years 1455 and 1406, and the latter soon afterwards V. Continuation of the Portuguese Discoveries along the Coast of Africa, from the death of Don Henry in 1463, to the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1486 VI. History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese, between the years 1497 and 1505, from the original Portuguese of Hernan Lopez de Castaneda VII. Letters from Lisbon in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, respecting the then recent Discovery of the Route by Sea to India, and the Indian trade _Note_. In p. 292 of this volume, 1, 2 and 18, the date of 1525 ought to have been 1505. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. PART I. (CONTINUED.) CHAP. XX. _Account of Various early Pilgrimages from England to the Holy Land; between the years 1097 and 1107_[1]. INTRODUCTION. The subsequent account of several English pilgrimages to the Holy Land. [1] Hakluyt, I. p. 44. et sequ. SECTION I. _The Voyage of Gutuere, or Godwera, an English Lady, towards the Holy Land, about 1097._ While the Christian army, under Godfrey of Buillon, was marching through Asia Minor from Iconium, in Lycaonia, by Heraclea, to Marasia, or Maresch[1], Gutuere, or Godwera, the wife of Baldwin, the brother of the Duke of Lorain, who had long laboured under heavy sickness, became so extremely ill, that the army encamped on her account near Marash, for three days, when she expired. This lady is said to have been of noble English parentage, and was honourably interred at Antioch in Syria[2]. [1] Now Konieh, Erekli, and Marash; the two former in Karamania, the latter in Syria or Room.--E. [2] For this story, Hakluyt quotes Hist Bel. Sacr. lib. iii. c. xvii. and Chron. Hierosol. lib. iii c. xxvii. SECTION II. _The Voyage of Edgar Aethling to Jerusalem, in 1102_[1]. Edgar, commonly called Aethling, was son of Edward, the son of Edmond Ironside, who was the brother of Edward the Confessor, to whom consequent
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