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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt
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An extract taken out of the map[12] of Sebastian Cabot, cut by Clement
Adams, concerning his discouery of the West Indies, which is to be seene
in her Maiesties priuie gallerie at Westminster, and in many other
ancient merchants houses.

Anno Domini 1497 Ioannes Cabotus Venetus, et Sebastianus illius filius eam
terram fecerunt peruiam, quam nullus priùs adire ausus fuit, die 24 Junij,
circiter horam quintam bene manè. Hanc autem appellauit Terram primùm
visam, credo quod ex mari in eam partem primùm oculos iniecerat. Nam quæ ex
aduerso sita est insula eam appellauit insulam Diui Ioannis, hac opinor
ratione, quòd aperta fuit eo die qui est sacer Diuo Ioanni Baptistæ: Huius
incolæ pelles animalium, exuuiasque ferarum pro indumentis habent, easque
tanti faciunt, quanti nos vestes preciosissimas. Cùm bellum gerunt, vtuntur
arcu, sagittis, hastis, spiculis, clauis ligneis et fundis. Tellus sterilis
est, neque vllos fructus affert, ex quo fit, vt vrsis albo colore, et
ceruis inusitatæ apud nos magnitudinis referta sit: piscibus abundat,
ijsque sane magnis, quales sunt lupi marini, et quos salmones vulgus
appellat; soleæ autem reperiuntur tam longæ, vt vlnæ mensuram excedant.
Imprimis autem magna est copia eorum piscium, quos vulgari sermone vocant
Bacallaos. Gignuntur in ea insula accipitres ita nigri, vt coruorum
similitudinem mirum in modum exprimant, perdices autem et aquilæ sunt nigri
coloris.


The same in English.

In the yeere of our Lord 1497 Iohn Cabot a Venetian, and his sonne
Sebastian (with an English fleet set out from Bristoll) discouered that
land which no man before that time had attempted, on the 24 of Iune,[13]
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