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Excerpt from Sailors Narratives of Voyages Along the New England Coast, 1524-1624 Giovanni DA verrazano, a Florentine sailor in the service of France who had attracted the royal attention hy his successful attacks on Spanish commerce, was com missioned hy Francis I, in the spring of 1523, to cross the Atlantic in search for a sea route to Cathay. In April, the agents of S pain in France notified their govern ment that V errazano was ready to start. Two months later, the Spanish authorities learned that he had re turned to La Rochelle, hringing the captured vessels in which Cortes had shipped the treasure gathered from the Aztec lords of Mexico. The proposed voyage of discovery was not, however, merely a hlind for this attack on the Spanish West Indian eet. V errazano refitted his ships and made a second start, only to he driven hack hy a Bis cayan storm. With his single remaining seaworthy ves sel, he finally got away for the West. In March, 1524, land was sighted, prohahly near Cape Fear, on the Caro lina coast. After looking in vain for a harhour toward the south, he turned northward and followed the shore line as far as Maine or Nova Scotia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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Featuring eleven stories of navigation of the New Egland coast between the years 1524 and 1624, Valiant Navigators brings us on board multiple sailing vessels to witness firsthand what the explorers saw. Originally published in 1905, this volume includes brief journals and letters of Giovanni de Verrazano, David Ingram, Bartholomew Gosnold, Martin Pring, Samuel de Champlain, George Waymouth, Georg Popham, Henry Hudson, John Smith, Thomas Dermer, and Christopher Levett. Over the span of this century, these men originally sought the Northwest Passage to China, but eventually turned their eye toward settlement of this new land. In each letter you will read firsthand accounts of the coastline, trees, plants, wildlife, and of course, their encounters with the Native tribes. You'll also see more historic names, including Squanto and Samoset.The original version is kept intact, with minor changes in spelling (from Elizabethan English to modern English), and contains additional footnotes, portraits, and maps. This Knowledge Keepers book is part of an ongoing project to reprint historic American texts in an affordable edition to keep our history alive and in home libraries.
In this first comprehensive study of American Indians of southern New England from 1500 to 1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon discusses common features and significant differences among the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, Narragansett, Pokanoket, Niantic, Mohegan, and Pequot Indians. Her complex portrait, which employs both the perspective of European observers and important new evidence from archaeology and linguistics, shows that internally developed customs and values were primary determinants in the development of Native culture.
The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as Norumbega, the later New England; They are the first documents of exploration of that region to have been published since that of Verrazzano's voyage (1524) in 1556. To the accounts of these voyages by John Brereton and James Rosier there was added by Purchas in 1625 the material of Martin Pring's voyage of 1603 and some scraps of information on the attempted colony by the Virginia Company of Plymouth at Sagadahoc on the Kennebec River in 1607-1608. The narrative of the voyage of the Mary and John, discovered in the 19th century, and now attributed to Robert Davies, remains our main authority for the 1607 voyage. Many ancillary documents are added to these essential sources. Most of these narratives have been edited in the distant past but they are now furnished with full information on fauna, flora, and above all, ethnography. The material which has become available on Indians of both northern and southern New England has enabled a full account to be given of them, while expert advice has been obtained in the edition of the Eastern Abenaki vocabulary of 1605. Considerable attention has been paid to topographical problems, to which new solutions are offered in a number of cases (though conflicting views are discussed in an appendix). The volume thus makes up a collection which is basic for the understanding of how Englishmen began to explore New England (and how its inhabitants learnt something of the English) and on how that important territory first came to light in detail. The narratives are of great interest in themselves and the biographical information which it has been possible to assemble in the introduction about a number of the authors and actors in the voyages and the colonising attempt of 1607 is valuable in enabling the reader to understand what they wrote and what they omitted. Professor and Mrs Quinn have worked on this volume for a number of years and their introduction and notes constitute an important addition to our knowledge.