Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . nquests of Hernando Cortes about Mexico, andthose of Francisco Pizarro in Peru about Casamalchaand Cusco, may know more particularly. All whichtheir discoveries, travails and conquests are extant tobe had in the English tongue. This device was thenaccounted a fantastical imagination, and a drowsydream. But the sequel thereof has since awakened out ofdreams thousands of souls to know their Creator,being therefore before that time altogether ignorant:and hath since made sufficient proof, neither to befantastic nor vainly imagined. Wit
Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . nquests of Hernando Cortes about Mexico, andthose of Francisco Pizarro in Peru about Casamalchaand Cusco, may know more particularly. All whichtheir discoveries, travails and conquests are extant tobe had in the English tongue. This device was thenaccounted a fantastical imagination, and a drowsydream. But the sequel thereof has since awakened out ofdreams thousands of souls to know their Creator,being therefore before that time altogether ignorant:and hath since made sufficient proof, neither to befantastic nor vainly imagined. Withal, how mightily it hath enlarged the dominionsof the Crown of Spain, and greatly enriched thesubjects of the same, let all men consider. Besides,it is well known, that since the time of Columbus hisfirst discovery, through the planting, possessing, andinhabiting those parts, there hath been transportedand brought home into Europe greater store of gold,silver, pearls and precious stones, than heretofore hathbeen in all ages since the creation of the An extract taken out of the map of Sebastian Cabot, cutby Clement Adams, concerning his discovery of theWest Indies, which is to be seen in Her Majestysprivy gallery at Westminster, and in many otherancient merchants houses. In the year of our Lord 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian,and his son Sebastian (with an English fleet out fromBristol) discovered that land which no man beforethat time had attempted, on the 24th of June, aboutfive of the clock early in the morning. This land hecalled Prima Vista, that is to say, First Seen, becauseas I suppose it was that part whereof they had thefirst sight from sea. That island which lieth out beforethe land, he called the Island of S. John upon thisoccasion, as I think, because it was discovered uponthe day of John the Baptist. The inhabitants of this island use to wear beastsskins, and have them in as great estimation as wehave our finest garments. In their wars they usebows, arrows, p
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