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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 5 (search)
Description. of Jacques Cartier of St. Malo, of the new land called New France, In the map of Ortelius, published in 1572, the name of New France is applied to the whole of both North and South America. The application of this name dates back to a period immediately after the voyage of Verrazzano; and the Dutch voyagers are especially free in their use of it, out of spite to the Spaniards.—Parkman. newly discovered in the year of our Lord 1534. . . . After that, Sir Charles of Mouy, Knight, Lord of Meilleraie, and Vice-Admiral of France, had caused the captains, masters, and mariners of the ships to be sworn to behave themselves faithfully in the service of the most Christian King of France. Under the charge of the said Cartier, we departed from the Port of St. Malo with two ships of threescore tons' apiece burden, and sixty-one well-appointed men in each one. . . . [Cartier sailed first to Newfoundland, and then made further discoveries.] Upon Thursday, being the 8t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 8 (search)
ell beseeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clock, or not long after, the frigate being ahead of us in the Golden Hind, suddenly her lights were out, whereof, as it were in a moment, we lost the sight; and withal our watch cried [that] the general was cast away, which was too true; for in that moment the frigate was devoured and swallowed up of the sea. . . . . Thus have I delivered the contents of the enterprise and last action of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Knight, faithfully, for so much as I thought meet to be published; wherein may always appear, though he be extinguished, some sparks of his virtue; he remaining firm and resolute in a purpose, by all pretence honest and godly as was this, to discover, possess, and to reduce unto the service of God and Christian piety, those remote and heathen countries of America not actually possessed by Christians, and most rightly appertaining unto the crown of England.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 9 (search)
k IX: the lost colonies of Virginia. (A. D. 1584-1590.) These extracts from the early Virginia narratives may be found in Hakluyt's Voyages (ed. 1801), vol. III. pp. 301-305, 323, 340-346, 354-355. I—The first voyage to Virginia. The first voyage made to the coasts of America, with two barks, wherein were Captains M. Philip Amadas and M. Arthur Barlowe, who discovered part of the country now called Virginia, Anno 1584. Written by one of the said captains, and sent to Sir Walter Raleigh Knight, at whose charge and direction the said voyage was set forth. The twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our redemption, Anno Domini. 1584, we departed [from] the west of England, with two barks well furnished with men and victuals, having received our last and perfect directions by your letters, confirming the former instructions and commandments, delivered by yourself at our leaving the River of Thames. . . . . The 2d of July we found shoal water, where we smelt so
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 10 (search)
man employed in the voyage. Reprinted in the same volume of the Massachusetts Historical Collections, pp. 135-156. The other two narratives are from Strachey's Historie of Travaile into Virginia (reprinted by the Hakluyt Society, 1849), pp. 171-173, 176-180. I.—Gosnold's fort at Cuttyhunk. [Gosnold was the first Englishman who attempted to found a colony in New England; and this account of his attempt is by his companion, John Brereton.] To the Honorable Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight. Honorable Sir,— Being earnestly requested by a dear friend to put down in writing some true relation of our late-performed voyage to the north parts of Virginia, The Massachusetts coast was still described as a part of Virginia. at length I resolved to satisfy his request. May it please your Lordship, therefore, to understand that upon the five and twentieth of March, 1602, being Friday, we went from Falmouth, being in all two and thirty persons, in a small bark of Dartmouth, calle