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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
more in France. His own narrative of the voyage is the earliest original account, now extant, of the coast of the United States. He advanced the knowledge of the country; and he gave to France some claim to an extensive territory, on the pretext of discovery. Chalmers's Annals, 512. Harris's Voyages, II. 348,349. The historians of maritime adventure agree, that 1525 Verrazzani again embarked upon an expedition, from which, it is usually added, he never returned. Did he Chap. I.} 1525 Feb. 24. sail once more under the auspices of France? Charlevoix, Nouv. Fr. i. 7, 8. When the monarch had just lost every thing but honor in the disastrous battle of Pavia, is it probable, that the impoverished government could have sent forth another expedition? Did he relinquish the service of France for that of England? It is hardly a safe conjecture, 1527 that he was murdered in an encounter with savages, while on a voyage of discovery, which Henry VIII. had favored. Memoir of
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rozen north; in the south, and in the south only, they looked for great and exceeding riches. Peter Martyr, d. VIII. l. x. The adventure of Gomez had no political results. It had been furthered by the enemies of Cabot, who was, at that time, in the service of Spain; and it established the reputation of the Bristol mariner. Peter Martyr, d. VI. l. x., and d VIII. l. x. Gomara, c. XL. Herrera, d. III. l. VIII. c. VIII. But neither the fondness of the Spanish monarch Chap. II.} 1525. for extending his domains, nor the desire of the nobility for new governments, nor the passion of adventurers to go in search of wealth, would suffer the abandonment of Florida; and in 1526, Pamphilo de 1526. Narvaez, a man of no great virtue or reputation, obtained from Charles V. the contract to explore and reduce all the territory from the Atlantic to the River of Palms. This is he who had been sent by the jealous Governor of Cuba to take Cortes prisoner, and had himself been easily def