Marco Polo.--The shipwreck of Pelsart.--The wonderful adventures of Andrew Battel.--The wanderings of a Capuchin.--Peter Carder.--The preservation of the "Terra nova."--Spitzbergen.--D'Ermenonville's acclimatization adventure.--The old slave trade.--Miles Philips.--The sufferings of Robert Everard.--John Fox.--Alvaro Nunez.--The foundation of an empire