1st Edition

The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612-14

Edited By Sir William Foster Copyright 2010
    372 Pages
    by Hakluyt Society

    Journals, extracts from journals, and narratives, written on board the Dragon and Hosiander by Best and various other persons, including Ralph Standish and Ralph Croft, with Best's correspondence and extracts from the Court minutes of the East India Company. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.

    Introduction, Fuller titles of works cited, A journal kept on board the Dragon by Thomas Best, 1 February 1612 to 15 June 1614, A journal kept on board the Hosiander, begun by Ralph Standish and continued by Ralph Croft, 3 February 1612 to 29 August 1613, Extracts from a journal kept by Nathaniel Salmon, master of the Hosiander, 31 August to 7 September 1612, and 17 January to 12 April 1613, Extracts from a journal kept by Robert Bonner, master of the Dragon, 1 February 1612 to 11 August 1613, Extracts from a narrative by the Rev. Patrick Copland, Extracts from a narrative by Nicholas Withington, Bocarro’s account of the fighting in the Gulf of Cambay, A register of wills, debts, etc. in the Dragon, Correspondence, Extracts from the Court Minutes of the East India Company, Index

    Biography

    Sir William Foster