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INTRODUCTION,

Containing a

CONCISE ACCOUNT

OF THE

Expeditions undertaken thither beforehand.

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The chronicles of Wales recount that in the year 1170, a Madoc, son of Owen Guineth, Prince of Wales, seeing his two brothers quarreling over the possession of their estates, equipped a few ships, well provided with men and war gear, [and] left his country to seek adventures at sea. Having set out to sea, he left Ireland to the North, and sailed Westward so long until he arrived at an unknown, and at the same time uninhabited land. When he returned home again, he told what pleasant and no less fertile lands he had seen, yet without inhabitants, where he found his brothers and countrymen still quarreling over a desolate piece of ground and bringing each other to the gallows; upon which he...