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Book III: Cabot and Verrazzano. (A. D. 1497-1524.) Ship of the 15th Century. The first of these extracts in regard to the Cabots may be found in one of the Hakluyt Society's volumes, entitled Henry Hudson the Navigator, edited by G. M. Asher, London, 1860, p. Ixix. The extracts which follow are from another volume of the same series, entitled Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, London, 1850, pp. 23-26. Verrazzano's narrative is taken from Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, same edition, pp. 55-, we determined to make discovery of new countries, to prosecute the navigation we had already begun; which I purpose at this present to recount unto your Majesty, to make manifest the whole proceeding of the matter. The 17th of January, the year 1524, by the grace of God we departed Verrazzano. from the dishabited rock, One of the Dezertas. Dishabited means uninhabited. by the Isle of Madeira, appertaining to the King of Portugal, with fifty men, with victuals, weapon, and other ship mu