The Pine-tree coast . erest is so muchheightened by the knowledge that a navigator was now and then killed and eaten ! First comes JeanParmentier, of Di-eppe, in Normandy,the great sea cap-tain of Eamusio,who has printed inhis superb collectiona manuscript dated in1539, and attributedto Parmentier, inwhich the name ofNorumbega is firstmentioned in anyprinted work that hasyet come to writer of thememoir, whether it beParmentier himself orhis admiring friendand comrade, PierreCrignon, says thatNorumbega was dis-covered by Verrazano,who took possessionof it in the name ofthe king, Franc
The Pine-tree coast . erest is so muchheightened by the knowledge that a navigator was now and then killed and eaten ! First comes JeanParmentier, of Di-eppe, in Normandy,the great sea cap-tain of Eamusio,who has printed inhis superb collectiona manuscript dated in1539, and attributedto Parmentier, inwhich the name ofNorumbega is firstmentioned in anyprinted work that hasyet come to writer of thememoir, whether it beParmentier himself orhis admiring friendand comrade, PierreCrignon, says thatNorumbega was dis-covered by Verrazano,who took possessionof it in the name ofthe king, Francis I.,and of the regent, Louise de Savoy. Duchess of Angouleme, and mother of theking. Napoleon said of her that she was the only man of her family. Thememoir, or relation, further asserts that Norumbega was the name by whichthe natives called their country. There is a very curious map accompanyingit, and the voyage to which it refers must have followed close upon Verrazanos,of 1524, as Parmentier died at sea in SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN. A VOYAGE TO NORUMBEGA. 255 Jean Alfonse, called the Saintongeois, was contemporary with Verrazano,Rarmentier, and Cartier, whose discoveries he would Beem to have been desirousof emulating. His surname of Saintongeois identifies him with thai fruitfulold province in the wesl of France, thai in later times gave De Monts andChamplain to the cause of American colonization. Our judgment of Alfonse is based largely upon the verdict of writers t histime. The sonnets ami other eulogistic verse addressed to him bear witness toour day how high Cegentilcapitainedemer stood in the popular esteem. So also to these performances we owe about allwe know, or are likely to know, of Alfonses life, through the scanty scraps of persona] history, thrown in at hazard, and to which, no doubt, the poet him-self attached the least importance. Besides these poetical effusions, of which he is the subject, Alfonse has lefta manuscript cosmography composed or dictated by hi
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