Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes - Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 1905–7 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations in recording voyages of exploration. Volume 18 moves from South to North America, with accounts of French expeditions including that of Champlain, British planned colonies and John Smith's description of Virginia.