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The first of these extracts in regard to the Cabots may be found in one of the Hakluyt Society's volumes, entitled ‘Henry Hudson the Navigator, edited by G. M. Asher,’ London, 1860, p. Ixix. The extracts which follow are from another volume of the same series, entitled ‘Hakluyt's Divers Voyages,’ London, 1850, pp. 23-26. Verrazzano's narrative is taken from ‘Hakluyt's Divers Voyages,’ same edition, pp. 55-71. Another translation, by J. G. Cogswell, may be found, with the original Italian narrative, in the Collections of the New York Historical Society, second series, vol. I.