Verrazzano's sailors probably met indians like these in Virginia. Giovanni da Verrazzano was an Italian (Florentine) explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay

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