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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 21 21 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
inst the ancient religion of France? The colony of Huguenots at the 1562 to 1567. South sprung from private enterprise; a government which could devise the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572. Aug. 24. was neither worthy nor able to found new states. At length, under the mild and tolerant reign of Henry IV., the star of France emerged from the clouds of blood, treachery, and civil war, which had so long eclipsed her glory. The number and importance of the fishing stages had increased; in 1578 there were one 1578 hundred and fifty French vessels at Newfoundland, and regular voyages, for traffic with the natives, began to be successfully made. One French mariner, before 1609, had made more than forty voyages to the American coast. The purpose of founding a French empire in America was renewed, and an ample commission 1596. was issued to the Marquis'de la Roche, a nobleman of Chap. I.} Brittany. Yet his enterprise entirely failed. Sweeping the prisons of France, he establishe
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
s of Arkansas, and covet the moss-grown barrens of the Esquimaux. I have now to relate the first attempt of the English, 1578. under the patronage of Elizabeth, to plant an establishment in America. Hakluyt, III. 71—73. It was believed that tself could not vie with the riches of this hyperborean archipelago But the entrance to these wealthy islands was ren- 1578. May 31, to Sept. 28. dered difficult by frost; and the fleet of Frobisher, as it now approached the American coast, was bns, for they still frequented the fisheries of Iceland; but yet they were commonly lords in the harbors, and Chap. III.} 1578. in the arrogance of naval supremacy, exacted payment 1578 for protection. See the letter of Ant. Park-Burst, who had h1578 for protection. See the letter of Ant. Park-Burst, who had himself been for four years engaged in the Newfound-land trade, in Hakluyt, III. 170—174. It is an incident honorable to the humanity of the early voyagers, that, on one of the American islands, not far from the fishing stations, hogs and horned cattl