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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
printed. III.—Verrazzano's letter to the King. [this letter is said to have been written at Dieppe, July 8, 1524, being addressed to King Francis I. Of France. this narrative, if authentic, is the earliest original account of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its authenticity has been doubted; and Mr. Bancrof woman received thankfully; but the young woman disdained them all, and threw them disdainfully on the ground. They took a child from the old woman to bring into France; and going about to take the young woman, which was very beautiful, and of tall stature, could not possibly, for the great outcries that she made, bring her to thnd, when we went on shore, they shot at us with their bows, making great outcries, and afterwards fled into the woods. . . . Having now spent all our provision and victuals, and having discovered about seven hundred leagues and more of new countries and being furnished with water and wood, we concluded to return into France.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 5 (search)
re described, may be found in Parkman's Pioneers of France in the New World, p. 81. Another account of the sam an expedition was fitted out by King Francis I. Of France, as is described below.] The first relation Duy, Knight, Lord of Meilleraie, and Vice-Admiral of France, had caused the captains, masters, and mariners of hfully in the service of the most Christian King of France. Under the charge of the said Cartier, we departedd up a shield with three fleurde-lis The arms of France. in it; and in the top was carved in the wood with s to take possession of the country for the King of France; but Cartier did not hesitate to deceive the nativethal very fruitful, full of goodly trees even as in France, as oaks, elms, ashes, walnut trees, maple-trees, cs, under which groweth as fair tall hemp as any in France, without any seed, or any man's work or labor at al full of as goodly great oaks as are in any wood in France, under which the ground was all covered over with f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 7 (search)
ese adventures in the first half of his Pioneers of France in the New World. There is a memoir of Ribaut by Jcated to a great nobleman admiral de Coligny. of France, and translated into English by one Thomas Hackit.]here was no Christian denizen but they.—Pioneers of France, p. 35. the following is from the narrative of t to build a small pinnace, with hope to return into France, if no succor came unto them, as they expected fromy which they had conceived for their returning into France, or, rather, deprived of all foresight and considerevery minute of an hour out of all hope ever to see France again, insomuch that they were constrained to cast biscuits which I caused to be made to return into France. So that, if I should say that I received more fav and for me to have embarked myself, to return into France . . . . . He was no sooner departed from us thaninic de Gourgues, may be found described in Parkman's interesting book, Pioneers of France in the New World.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 12 (search)
Book XII: Champlain on the war-path. (A. D. 1609.) This passage is taken from Voyages de la Nouvelle France, par le Sieur de Champlain, Paris, 1632, as translated in O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New York, vol. III. p. 3. Parkman gives a full account of Champlain's adventures, in the latter half of his Pioneers of France in the New World, from p. 165 onward. Champlain on the war-path. [this narrative is of great interest, as showing the mode of early Indian warfare, and the way in which the French at once modified it by teaching them the use of fire-arms. It also illustrates the way in which the French explored thnce they have been at war the one with the other. Several rivers, also, discharge into the lake, surrounded by a number of fine trees similar to those we have in France, with a quantity of vines handsomer than any I ever saw; a great many chestnuts; and I had not yet seen, except the margin of the lake, where there is a larger a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Index. (search)
and Isabella, 16, 25, 27, 37, 51, 52. Ferdinando, 190, 191. Ferdinando, Simon, 179. Fire of New England, The, 352. First encounter, The, of Pilgrims, 319. Fish in New England, 350. Florida visited, 73, 125, 141. Francis I. (of France), 60, 99, 103. Frederycke, Master, Kryn, 305. French in Canada, The, 97-118. in Florida, The, 141-212. G. Gallegos, Baltasar de, 124, 126, 131. Gardar, 3. Gilbert, Sir, Humphrey, 169-174. Captain Raleigh, 222-227. Gloucester (Malaghan, Dr. E. B., 268, 280. Opechankanough, 239. Ortelius, 99. Ortiz, John, 127-130. Ottigny, 158. Ouade, 150. Oviedo, Lope de, 83, 90, 91. P. Pamaunkee, King of, 238. Pantoja, Captain, 80. Parkman, Francis, Pioneers of France, 98, 99, 142, 149, 268. Pasqualigo, Lorenzo, 55. Penobscot River visited, 213. Perce, Michael, 298. Pierria, Captain Albert de la, 148, 149, 151. Pilgrims at Plymouth, 309-338. Pizarro, Fernando, 121. Plymouth (Mass.) Colony, 309-3