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English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689
NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA
Edited by
JUSTIN WINSOR
Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society
VOL. III
Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1884, by James R. Osgood and Company. All rights reserved.
CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
[_The English arms on the title are copied from the Molineaux map, dated 1600._]
PAGE CHAPTER I.
THE VOYAGES OF THE CABOTS. Charles Deane 1
ILLUSTRATION: Sebastian Cabot, 5.
AUTOGRAPHS: Henry VII., 1; Henry VIII., 4; Edward VI., 6; Queen Mary, 7.
CRITICAL ESSAY 7
ILLUSTRATIONS: La Cosa map (1500), phototype, 8, 8; Ruysch’s map (1508), 9; Orontius Fine’s map (1531), 11; Stobnicza’s map (1512), 13; Page of Peter Martyr in fac-simile, 15; Thorne’s map (1527), 17; Sebastian Cabot’s map (1544), 22; Lok’s map (1582), 40; Hakluyt-Martyr map (1587), 42; Portuguese Portolano (1514-1520), 56.
CHAPTER II.
HAWKINS AND DRAKE. Edward E. Hale 59
ILLUSTRATIONS: John Hawkins, 61; Zaltieri’s map (1566), 67; Furlano’s map (1574), 68.
AUTOGRAPHS: John Hawkins, 61; Francis Drake, 65.
CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAKE’S BAY 74
ILLUSTRATIONS: Modern map of California coast, 74; Viscaino’s map (1602), 75; Dudley’s map (1646), 76, 77; Jeffreys’ sketch-map (1753), 77.
NOTES ON THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. The Editor 78
ILLUSTRATIONS: Hondius’s map, 79; Portus Novæ Albionis, 80; Molineaux’s map (1600), 80; Sir Francis Drake, 81, 84; Thomas Cavendish, 83.