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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
tradition, that he perished at sea, having been engaged in an expedition of which no tidings were ever heard. Such a report might easily be spread respecting a great navigator who had disappeared from the public view; and the rumor might be adopted by an incautious historian. It is probable, that Verrazzani had only retired from the fatigues of the life of a mariner; and, while others believed him buried in the ocean, he may have long enjoyed at Rome the friendship of men of letters, with 1537. the delights of tranquil employment. See Annibale Caro, Lettere Familiari, tom. l. let 12. Yet such is the obscurity of the accounts respecting his life, that certainty cannot be established. Tiraboschi, VII. 263, ed. 1809. Compare, also, Ensayo Cronologico à la Historia de la Florida, Año Mdxxiv. But the misfortunes of the French monarchy did not 1527. affect the industry of its fishermen; who, amidst the miseries of France, still resorted to Newfoundland. There exists a letter
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
the Colorado on the other, and portrayed it so accurately, that succeeding travellers verify their description! The expedition from Mexico had not yet been be- 1537. gun, when, in 1537, Cabeza de Vaca, landing in Spain, addressed to the Imperial Catholic King a narrative of his adventures, that they might serve as a guide to t1537, Cabeza de Vaca, landing in Spain, addressed to the Imperial Catholic King a narrative of his adventures, that they might serve as a guide to the men who should go under the royal banners to conquer those lands; and the tales of the Columbus of the continent quickened the belief, that the country between the river Palmas and the Atlantic was the richest in the world. The assertion was received even by those who had seen Mexico and Peru. To no one was this faith more onquerors of Peru, Soto had seasonably withdrawn, to display his opulence in Spain, and to solicit advancement. His reception was triumphant; success Chap. II.} 1537. of all kinds awaited him. The daughter of the distinguished nobleman, under whom he had first served as a poor adventurer, became his wife; Portuguese Relation
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
e Slave-Trade, i. 35, American edition. Clarkson, i. 33, 34, says that Charles V. lived to repent his permission of slavery, and to order emancipation. The first is probable; yet Herrera, d. II. l. II. c. XX., denounces not slavery, but the monopoly of the slave-trade. that not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. And Paul III., in two separate briefs, See the brief, in Remesal, Hist. de Chiappa, l. III. c. XVI. XVII. imprecated a 1537. June 10. curse on the Europeans who should enslave Indians, or any other class of men. It even became usual for Spanish vessels, when they sailed on a voyage of discovery, to be attended by a priest, whose benevolent duty it was, to prevent the kidnapping of the aborigines. T. Southey's West Indies, i. 126. The legislation of independent America has been emphatic Walsh's Appeal, 306—342. Belknap's Correspondence with Tucker, i. Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. 190—211. in denouncing the hasty a