The history and antiquities of Boston .. . such as it was. But it was ina second voyage that Sebastian Cabot rangedthis coast from about 57° north, to the latitudeof the Fretum Herculeum, according to PeterMartyr; that is, to about 36° N. lat. See, also, Stows Chronicle, 805, ed. 1600 ; or p. 480,ed. 1631. J This is a perfectly correct representation ofan armed ship of the armada age, as publishedin Blundeviles treatise on Nauigation, 4tc1594. ^ Lord Bacon, at the end of his History ofthe Reign of Henry the Seventh, devotes twopages to The Remarkable Occurrences in thatreign. This year, the se
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . such as it was. But it was ina second voyage that Sebastian Cabot rangedthis coast from about 57° north, to the latitudeof the Fretum Herculeum, according to PeterMartyr; that is, to about 36° N. lat. See, also, Stows Chronicle, 805, ed. 1600 ; or p. 480,ed. 1631. J This is a perfectly correct representation ofan armed ship of the armada age, as publishedin Blundeviles treatise on Nauigation, 4tc1594. ^ Lord Bacon, at the end of his History ofthe Reign of Henry the Seventh, devotes twopages to The Remarkable Occurrences in thatreign. This year, the seventeenth of thiskings reign [which chronology is erroneous],Sebastian Cabot brought three Indians into England. They were clothed in beasts skins, andeat raw flesh. Two of them were seen twoyears after, dressed like Englishmen, and not tobe distinguished from them. See, also, Pur-chas, 738, ed. 1614. Robert Fabian in Hakluyt,515, ed. 1589. Works, Hakluyl Soc for 23. HISTORY OF BOSTON. [1497. fow other particulars in this place. SEBASTIAN CABOT. they therefore follow, as Sebastianhimself related them : * Whenmy father, he writes, departedfrom Venice many yeeres since todwell in England, to follow thetrade of merchandizes, he tookeme with him to the citie ofLondon, while I was very yong,yet hailing, neuerthele»se, someknowledge of letters, of humanity,and of the And whenmy father died in that time whennewes were brought that DonChristofer Colonus Genuese [Co-lumbus] had discovered the coastsof India, whereof was great talkein all the court of king Henry theSeventh, who then raigned, inso-much that all men with great admiration affirmed it to bee a thing morediuine than humane, to saile by the West into the East where spicesgrowe, by a way that was neuer known before ; by this fame and reportthere increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt somenotable thing. And vnderstanding by reason of the Sphere, that if Ishould saile by way of the Northwest
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