. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . NICHOLAS BURGOIGNON wages at all of him, if he will give them leave to discoverthis citie, and the rich mountaines, and the passage to asea or mighty Lake which they heare to be within foureand twenty dayes travel from Saint Helena, which is in32. degrees of latitude : and is that river which theFrench called Port-royal. He saith also that he hath seene a rich Diamond whichwa
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . NICHOLAS BURGOIGNON wages at all of him, if he will give them leave to discoverthis citie, and the rich mountaines, and the passage to asea or mighty Lake which they heare to be within foureand twenty dayes travel from Saint Helena, which is in32. degrees of latitude : and is that river which theFrench called Port-royal. He saith also that he hath seene a rich Diamond whichwas brought from the mountaines that lye up in thecountrey Westward from S. Helena. These hils seemewholy to be the mountaines of Apalatci, whereof theSavages advertised Laudonniere, and it may bee theyare the hils of Chaunis Temoatam, which Master Lanehad advertisement of. The relation of Nicholas Burgoignon, alias Holy,whom sir Francis Drake brought from SaintAugustine also in Florida, where he had re-mayned sixe yeeres, in mine and MasterHeriots hearing. His Nicholas Burgoignon sayth, thatbetweene S. Augustine and S. Helenthere is a Casique whose name isCasicola, which is lord of ten thou-sand Indians, and anothe
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