[349] Hakluyt, 111, 500.
[350] In 1525 the “Mary of Guilford,” 160 tons, and one year old, was reserved for the King’s use. Manuscripts of Henry VIII. iv. 752. “John Rutt” was at one time master of the “Gabryll Royall.” In 1513 he was master of the “Lord Sturton,” with a crew of 250 men; and, in April of the same year, master of the “Great Galley,” 700 tons, John Hoplin being captain. Ibid., under “Ships.”
[351] Hakluyt, iii. 208; and De Costa’s Northmen in Maine, a Critical Examination, etc.,—Albany, 1870, p. 43,—[in refutation of the arguments of Kohl in his Discovery of Maine, p. 281, who contends for Rut’s exploration.—Ed.]
[352] Folio, 557. A copy of the manuscript is preserved in the British Museum, Sloane manuscripts, 1447, and one is also in the Bodleian, Tanner manuscripts, 79. They present no substantial variations. Hakluyt accepts the relation in his “Discourse,” 2 Maine Hist. Coll. ii. 115-220, [but his editor, Charles Deane, thinks it “has all the air of a romance or fiction.” The Sloane copy was followed by P. C. T. Weston, who privately printed it in his Documents Connected with the History of South Carolina, London, 1856 (121 copies), with the following title: “The Land Travels of Davyd Ingram and others in the years 1568-69 from the Rio de Minas in the Gulph of Mexico to Cape Breton in Acadia.” A manuscript copy in the Sparks Collection (Catalogue, App. No. 30) is called “Relaçon of Davyd Ingram of things which he did see in Travellinge by lande for [from?] the moste northerlie pte of the Baye of Mexico throughe a greate pte of Ameryca untill within fivetye leagues of Cape Britton.” Mr. Sparks has endorsed it: “Many parts of this narrative are incredible, so much as to throw a distrust over the whole.”—Ed.
[353] Purchas, iv. 1179. Ingram’s reference to Elephants reminds the reader of the Lions of the Plymouth colonists (Dexter’s Mourt, p. 75). In this connection consult the Rare Travailes of Job Hortop, who was put ashore with Ingram, being twenty-two years in reaching England. Cabeça de Vaca, who came to America with Narvaez in 1528, was six years in captivity, and spent twenty months in his travels to escape. At this period there were Indian trails in all directions for thousands of miles; on these Ingram and his companions travelled. See, for the Indian trails, Maine Hist. Coll., v. 326.
[354] [The Sloane text, according to Weston, has a blank for the name of this river.—Ed.]
[355] Nouvelle France, p. 598.
[356] Œuvres, iii. 22.
[357] Hakluyt, iii. 283. [See also chapter iv. of the present volume.—Ed.]
[358] Williamson’s History of North Carolina, i. 53.