John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America, and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557

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Benjamin Franklin Stevens, 1896 - 503 Seiten
 

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Seite 48 - This sounds as if after his arrival in London he had gone to Bristol to join his wife and children. Still less can it be demonstrated that Sebastian Cabot himself joined the expedition. The belief rests exclusively upon statements from his own lips, made at a time, under circumstances, in a form, and with details which render them very suspicious. Nay, they have been positively denied at least twice in his lifetime, in England as well as in Spain, as we intend to prove in due course. Meanwhile, in...
Seite 57 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathen and infidels whatsoever they be, and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians.
Seite 441 - First scene, because as I suppose it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea. That Island which lieth out before the land, he called the Island of S. John upon this occasion, as I thinke, because it was discovered upon the day of John the Baptist.
Seite 55 - It is clear that the existence of vast quantities of cod is a circumstance which is applicable to the entire transatlantic coast north of New England. Yet, however plentiful that species of fish may be on the banks of Newfoundland, the quantity is surpassed near the entrance of Hudson's strait. Modern explorers report that there cod and salmon ' form in many places a living mass, a vast ocean of living slime...
Seite 505 - The discovery of North America; a critical, documentary, and historic investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the new world, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost...
Seite 59 - The people of Bristol have, for the last seven years, sent out every year two, three, or four light ships in search of the Island of Brazil and the Seven C'ities, according to the fancy of this Genoese.
Seite 50 - But we have the positive statements of Lorenzo Pasqualigo and Raimondo di Soncino, who repeat what they themselves heard John Cabot say in London, immediately upon his return in the first week of August, 1497, that he accomplished his discovery with only one ship, "con uno naviglio de Bristo," which is even reported by them to have been a small craft, with a crew of but eighteen men : " cum uno piccolo naviglio e xviii persone.
Seite 365 - ... the good olde Gentleman Master Cabota gave to the poore most liberall almes, wishing them to pray for the good fortune, and prosperous successe of the Serchthrift, our Pinnesse.
Seite 164 - Myght have ben the furst of all That there shulde have take possessyon And made furst buyldynge and habytacion A memory perpetuall And also what an honorable thynge Bothe to the realme and to the kynge To have had his domynyon extendynge There into so farre a grounde Which the noble kynge of late memory The moste wyse prynce the vij. Herry Causyd furst to be founde...

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