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Bristol (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
others in Venice, and dated Aug. 23, 1497.] This Venetian of ours, who went with a ship from Bristol in quest of new islands, is returned, and says that seven hundred leagues hence he discovered t them with. He has also given him money wherewith to amuse himself till then; and he is now at Bristol with his wife, who is a Venetian woman, and with his sons. His name is Zuan John. Cabot; ans by a card and other demonstrations reasonable he showed, —caused to man and victual a ship at Bristol, to search for an island which he said he knew well was rich and replenished with rich commodither as chief patron, the said Venetian. And in the company of the said ship sailed also out of Bristol three or four small ships fraught with slight and gross merchandises, as coarse cloth, caps, laces, points, and other trifles, and so departed from Bristol in the beginning of May: of whom in this Mayor's time returned no tidings. Of three savage men which he brought home, and presented unt
Dieppe (France) (search for this): chapter 3
discourses, drawn and written by himself, which are in the custody of the worshipful master William Worthington, one of her Majesty's Pensioners, who—because so worthy monuments should not be buried in perpetual oblivion, —is very willing to suffer them to be overseen and published in as good order as may be, to the encouragement and benefit of our countrymen. But these papers never were 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. Bancroft, in the new edition of his History, does not refer to it at all. But, as the question is still unsettled, the letter is included here.] I wrote not to your Majesty (most Christian king), since the time we suffered the tempest in the north parts, of the success of the f<
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 3
ciety, second series, vol. I. I.—First news of John and Sebastian Cabot. [from a letter written by Lorenzo Pasqualigo, from London, to his. Brothers in Venice, and dated Aug. 23, 1497.] This Venetian of ours, who went with a ship from Bristol in quest of new islands, is returned, and says that seven hundred leagues hVenetian of ours, who went with a ship from Bristol in quest of new islands, is returned, and says that seven hundred leagues hence he discovered terra firma, Firm land, or continent. which is the territory of the Grand Cham. The name then given to the sovereign of Tartary, now called Khan. Shakspeare, in Much Ado about Nothing, written about 1600, says, Fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard. He coasted for three hundred leagues, and landed. s: 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 this land of New France, at the
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
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, either ancient or modern. And at the first sight it seemed somewhat low; but, being within a quarter of a league of it, we perceived, by the great fires that we saw by the seacoast, that it was inhabited, and saw that the land stretched to the southwards. . . . While we rode At anchor. upon that coast, partly because it had no harbor, and for that we wanted water, we sent our boat ashore with twenty-five men, where, by reason of great and conti
Portugal (Portugal) (search for this): chapter 3
ong by the coast of Spain. Afterwards, with the Dolphin alone, we determined to make discovery of new countries, to prosecute the navigation we had already begun; which I purpose at this present to recount unto your Majesty, to make manifest 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
France (France) (search for this): chapter 3
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.
Newport Harbor (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
about with many embracings, accompanying him unto the sea, and, to put him in more assurance, leaving him alone, went unto a high ground, and stood there, beholding him until he was entered into the boat. This young man observed, as we did also, that these are of color inclining to black, as the others were, with their flesh very shining, of mean stature, handsome visage, and delicate limbs, and of very little strength, but of prompt wit; farther we observed not. . . . Verrazzano in Newport harbor. Departing from hence, following the shore, which trended somewhat toward the north, in fifty leagues To land. space we came to another land, which showed much more fair, and full of woods, being very great, where we rode at anchor; and, that we might have some knowledge thereof, we sent twenty men a-land, To land. which entered into the country about two leagues, and they found that the people were fled to the woods for fear. They saw only one old woman with a young maid of e
Brittany (France) (search for this): chapter 3
bastian 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 Frenchman, and the two voyages of Jaques Cartier, a Briton, i.e., from Brittany, in France. who sailed into the land set in fifty degrees of latitude to the north, which is called New France: and the which lands hitherto it is not thoroughly known whether they do join with the firm land of Florida and Nova Hispania, or whether tty had been already duly informed thereof. Now by these presents I will give your Majesty to understand how, by the violence of the winds, we were forced with the two ships, the Norman and the Dolphin, in such evil case as they were, to land in Brittany. Where after we had repaired them in all points as was needful, and armed them very well, we took our course along by the coast of Spain. Afterwards, with the Dolphin alone, we determined to make discovery of new countries, to prosecute the na
Cathay (North Dakota, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
entine, and of a great captain, a Frenchman, and the two voyages of Jaques Cartier, a Briton, i.e., from Brittany, in France. who sailed into the land set in fifty degrees of latitude to the north, which is called New France: and the which lands hitherto it is not thoroughly known whether they do join with the firm land of Florida and Nova Hispania, or whether they be separated and divided 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 this land of New France, at the charges of King Henry the seventh, King of England. And he told me that having sailed a long time West and by North beyond these islands unto the latitude of sixty-seven degrees and a half under the North Pole, and at the 11 day of June, finding s
Saint Marks (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
th to amuse himself till then; and he is now at Bristol with his wife, who is a Venetian woman, and with his sons. His name is Zuan John. Cabot; and they call him the great admiral. Vast honor is paid him, and he dresses in silk; and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides. The discoverer of these places planted on his newfound land a large cross, with one flag of England, and another of St. Mark, by reason of his being a Venetian; so that our banner has floated very far afield. Ii.—Sebastian Cabot's voyage. [the following notes, preserved in Hakluyt's voyages, give the earliest authentic information about Sebastian Cabot.] A note of Sebastian Cabot's Voyage of Discovery, taken out of an old Chronicle written by Robert Fabian, sometime Alderman of London, which is in the custody of John Stowe, Citizen, a diligent searcher and preserver of Antiquities. This year 149
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