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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
anifest the whole proceeding of the matter. The 17th of January, the year 1524, by the grace of God we departed Verrazzano. from the dishabited rock, One of the Dezertas. Dishabited means uninhabited. by the Isle of Madeira, appertaining to the King of Portugal, with fifty men, with victuals, weapon, and other ship munition very well provided and furnished for eight months. And, sailing westwards with a fair easterly wind, in twenty-five days we ran five hundred leagues; and the 20th of February we were overtaken with as sharp and terrible a tempest as ever any sailors suffered: whereof, with the divine help and merciful assistance of Almighty God, and the goodness of our ship, accompanied with the good hap of her fortunate name, we were delivered, and with a prosperous wind followed our course west by north. And in other twenty-five days we made about four hundred leagues more, where we discovered a new land Probably the South Carolina coast. never before seen of any man,