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  1. 1553-1616. English geographer whose chief
  2. work is The Principal Navigations, Voyages
  3. and Discoveries of the English Nation
  4. 1598-1600. He was assisted by Sir Walter
  5. Raleigh. He lectured on cartography at
  6. Oxford, became geographical adviser to the
  7. East India Company, and was an original
  8. member of the Virginia Company. The Hakluyt
  9. Society, established in 1846, published later
  10. accounts of exploration.
  11.