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GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. VI.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

PART II.--(Continued.)

BOOK II.--(Continued.)

HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, AND OF SOME OF THEEARLY CONQUESTS IN THE NEW WORLD.

CHAPTER XI.

Early English voyages of discovery to America.Introduction.

SECTION I. Discovery of Newfoundland by John and SebastianCabot in 1497, in the service of Henry VII. of England.

SECTION II. Discourse by Galeacius Butrigarius, Papal Legatein Spain, respecting the Discoveries in America, by SebastianCabot.

SECTION III. Notice concerning Sebastian Cabot by Ramusio, inthe Preface to the third Volume of his Navigations.

SECTION IV. Notice respecting the voyage of Sebastian Cabot tothe north-west, from Peter Martyr ab Angleria.

SECTION V. Testimony of Francisco Lopez de Gomara, concerningthe discoveries of Sebastian Cabota.

SECTION VI. Note respecting the discoveries of SebastianCabot; from the latter part of Fabians Chronicle.

SECTION VII. Brief notice of the discovery of Newfoundland, byMr Robert Thorne.

SECTION VIII. Grant by Edward VI. of a Pension and the Officeof Grand Pilot of England to Sebastian Cabot.

SECTION IX. Voyage of Sir Thomas Pert and Sebastian Cabotabout the year 1516, to Brazil, St Domingo, and Porto Rico.

SECTION X. Brief note of a voyage by Thomas Tison to the WestIndies, before the year 1526.

CHAPTER XII.

The Voyages of Jacques Cartier from St Maloes to Newfoundlandand Canada, in the years 1534 and 1535.

Introduction.

SECTION I. The first voyage of Jacques Cartier to Newfoundlandand Canada, in 1534.

SECTION II. The second voyage of Jacques Cartier, to Canada,Hochelega, Saguenay, and other lands now called New France; withthe Manners and Customs of the Natives.

SECTION III. Wintering of Jacques Cartier in Canada in 1536,and return to France in 1537.

BOOK III.

CONTINUATION OF THE DISCOVERIES AND CONQUESTS OF THEPORTUGUESE IN THE EAST; TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLYVOYAGES OF OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS TO INDIA.

CHAPTER I.

Discoveries, Navigations, and Conquests of the Portuguese inIndia, from 1505 to 1539, both inclusive, resumed from Book I. ofthis Part.

SECTION I. Course of the Indian Trade before the Discovery ofthe Route by the Cape of Good Hope, with some account of thesettlement of the Arabs on the East Coast of Africa.

SECTION II. Voyage of Don Francisco de Almeyda from Lisbon toIndia, in quality of Viceroy, with an account of some of histransactions on the Eastern coast of Africa and Malabar.

SECTION III. Some Account of the state of India at thebeginning of the sixteenth Century, and commencement of thePortuguese Conquests.

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