The Discovery of America, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from The Discovery of America, Vol. 2 of 2: With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest The few facts known about John Cabot; The merchants of Bristol, and the voyage of Thomas Lloyd; Effect of the news that Columbus had found a western route to the Indies; John Cabot finds land supposed to be Cathay, June 24, 1497; John Cabot and his son Sebastian go in search of Cipango, April, 1498; Later career of Sebastian Cabot; Perplexities caused by the rapid accumulation of geographical facts in the sixteenth century; What part of North America did the Cabots visit? Map of 1544, attributed to Sebastian Cabot; Testimony of Robert Thorne; Cabot´s course, as described by Raimondo de Soncino; Description of the map made in 1500 by La Cosa; The Cabot voyages probably ranged from Labrador, through the gulf of St. Lawrence, and perhaps as far as Cape Cod; Why the Cabot voyages were not followed up; The voyage of John Rut, in 1527; Change in the situation between the reign of Henry VIII. and that of Elizabeth; Portuguese voyages to Labrador; the brothers Cortereal; The map made in 1502 for Alberto Cantino About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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