hen the first of
the two of the French columns entered the town. Twenty-five days later
the second column arrived.

The French occupation of Timbuctoo the Mysterious was complete, and Cape
Juby was evacuated by England. Two large forts have now replaced the
improvised fortifications, and their guns command every side of the
town. Under their protection the inhabitants are reviving. The long
nightmare of the Touaregs is being slowly dispelled. Houses are being
repaired and rebuilt; the occupants leave their doors ajar, and resume
their beautifully embroidered robes; and one can picture the city
becoming a centre of European civilisation and science as it was
formerly of Mussulman culture.

RICHARD HAKLUYT

The Principall Navigations

_I.--Of the Book and Why it was Made_

Richard Hakluyt, born about 1552 in Herefordshire,
England, was educated at Westminster and Christ Church,
Oxford, and became in 1590 rector of Wetheringsett, in
Suffolk, where he compiled and arranged "The Principall
Navigations, Voyages, Traffikes, and Discoveries of the
English Nation to the Remote Quarters of the Earth at any
Time within the Compass of these 1600 Years." He grew to
manhood in the midst of the most stirring period of travel
and discovery that England has known. Under Elizabeth,
English sailors and English travellers were penetrating
beyond the dim borders of the known world, and almost
every returning ship brought back fresh news of strange
lands. "Richard Hakluyt, Preacher," tells how his interest
was attracted towards this subject of travel and
exploration which he made his own. He published other
records of travel, but it is through the "Principall
Navigations" that his name has been perpetuated. Hakluyt
died on November 23, 1616.

I do remember that being a youth, and one of her Majestie's scholars at
Westminster, that fruitfull nurserie, it was my happe to visit the
chamber of Master Richard Hakluyt, my cousin, a gentleman of the Middle
Temple, at a time when I found lying open upon his borde certeine bookes
of cosmographie, with an universall mappe; he seeing me somewhat curious
in the view thereof, began to instruct my ignorance, by showing me the
division of the earth into three parts, after the old account, and then,
according to the latter and better distribution, into more. He pointed
out with his wand to all the known seas, gulfs, bayes, streights, capes,
rivers, empi