Las Canarias en las crónicas de Richard Hakluyt y Samuel Purchas

Resumen

The English presence in the Canaries in the 16th and 17th centuries is due largely to trade, political antagonism and British sea expeditions to the coast of Barbary and Guinea, the South Atlantic and the West Indies. The privileged position of the Fortunate Islands in the Atlantic and their commercial possibilities made many British merchants and businessmen establish in the richest and most populated of them several houses and stores dedicated to import manufactured goods from England, generally London cloth, and to export to Europe and the West Indies Canary sugar and wines. But the English presence in the Canaries during this period was not always so peaceful and civilized and often resulted in violence and depredation, as is related in different travel accounts compiled by R. Hakluyt and S. Purchas