[329] [See this map in chapter i.—Ed.]
[330] [The French explorations will be treated, and the illustrative maps will be given, in Vol. IV.—Ed.]
[331] Lane, in 1585, heard of houses covered with plates of metal. Hakluyt, iii. 258. Others repeated similar stories about other places.
[332] Dee’s Diary in the Publications of the Camden Society.
[333] [See chap. iv.—Ed.]
[334] [See chapter iv.—Ed.]
[335] It should be noted that Robert Salterne, who was with Pring at Plymouth, soon after took Orders in the Church of England. This leads to the conjecture that public worship may have been conducted at Plymouth in 1603; though the subject is not referred to.
[336] [See chap. ix. of Vol. IV—Ed.]
[337] [These transactions of the French will be noted in detail in Vol. IV.—Ed.]
[338] [This is counting Pring as the first, not usually reckoned such however, and Champlain as the second. See the Critical Essay.—Ed.]