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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
re. But as for speech, I heard none of them utter one word. John Baptista Ramusius, in his Preface to the third volume of the Navigations, writeth thus of Sebastian Gabot Cabot. : In the latter part of this volume are put certain relations of John De Verarzana, Verrazzano. a Florentine, and of a great captain, a Frenchided all by the Sea as Islands: and whether by that way one may go by sea into the country of Cathaio: Cathay. as many years past it was written unto me by Sebastian Gabot, our countryman Venetian, a man of great experience, and very rare in the art of Navigation and the knowledge of Cosmography: who sailed along and beyond thisore than can be done by any of all these great troubles and wars, which daily are used in Europe among the miserable Christian people. This much concerning Sebastian Gabot's discovery may suffice for a present cast: but shortly, God willing, shall come out in print, all his own maps and discourses, drawn and written by himself,