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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
Course of Sir Francis Drake, Hak. III. 524; Johnson's Life of Drake. Here the cold seemed 1579. June. intolerable to men who had just left the tropics. Despairing of success, he retired to a harbor in a milder latitude, within the limits of Mexico; and, having refitted his ship, and named the country New Albion, he sailed for England, through the seas of Asia. Thus was the southern part of the Oregon territory first visited by Englishmen, yet not till after a voyage of the Spanish from Acapulco, commanded by 1542. Cabrillo, a Portuguese, had traced the American continent to within two and a half degrees of the mouth of Columbia River; Forster's Northern Voyages, III. c. IV. s. II. Humboldt, Nouv Esp. II. 436, 437. Compare Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana, 34. 36. 57. while, thirteen years after the 1593 voyage of Drake, John de Fuca, a mariner from the Chap. III.} 1593 Isles of Greece, then in the employ of the viceroy of Mexico, sailed into the bay which is now kn