. 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 . s37. degrees of Northerly latitude: with adescription of the rivers, lakes, cities, townes,nations, fertile soyle, and temperate ayre inthose partes; and most certaine notice ofmany exceeding rich silver mines, and otherprincipall commodities. A discourse of the famous Cosmographer JohnBaptista Ramusius, concerning the threevoyages of Frier Marco de Nica, FrancisVasquez de Co


. 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 . s37. degrees of Northerly latitude: with adescription of the rivers, lakes, cities, townes,nations, fertile soyle, and temperate ayre inthose partes; and most certaine notice ofmany exceeding rich silver mines, and otherprincipall commodities. A discourse of the famous Cosmographer JohnBaptista Ramusius, concerning the threevoyages of Frier Marco de Nica, FrancisVasquez de Coronado, and Ferdinando Al-orchon next following: taken out of histhird volume of Navigations and Voyages. He right honourable Don Antonio deMendo9a being sent by Charles theEmperour to be viceroy of Mexico andNueva Espanna, and having understoodthat Don Ferdinando Cortez had sentmany ships along the coast of NuevaEspanna to discover countries, and toiind out the Isles of the Malucos, began himselfe todesire to do the like, as viceroy of Nueva Espanna;and hereupon they fell out: for Cortez said that hewas general and discoverer of the South sea, and thatit belonged to him to set forth those voyages. On 5 1539-. AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1539- the other side, the lord Don Antonio alledged thatit belonged to him to make that discovery, as beingviceroy of Nueva Espanna. So that they fell at greatvariance, and Cortez returned into Spaine to complaineunto the Emperour. Don Antonio in the meaneseason having obteined knowledge of the voiage, whichAndrew Dorantez (who was one of the company ofPamphilo Narvaez that escaped, as you may reade inthe relation of Alvaro Nunnez, called Cabe9a de Vaca)made; sent Frier Marco de Ni9a with a Negro ofthe said Dorantez to discover that country. WhichFrier Marco de Ni9a being returned, & having in-formed his lordship of all his discovery, he sent captainFrancis Vasquez de Coronado with many Spaniards onhorsebacke and Indians on foot: likewise he s


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