[413] See A Description of New England: or The Observations and Discoueries of Captain Iohn Smith (Admirall of that Country), in the North of America, in the year of our Lord 1614: with the successe of sixe Ships that went out the next yeare, 1615, and the accidents befell him among the French men of Warre: with the proofe of the present benefit this countrey affoords, whither this present yeare, 1616, eight voluntary ships are gone to make further Tryall. At London printed by Humfrey Lownes for Robert Clerke; and are to be sould at his house called the Lodge, in Chancery lane, ouer against Lincolnes Inne, 1616. Also The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles ... from their first beginning Ano. 1584, to the present, 1626. London, 1632. [See note D, at the end of this chapter.—Ed.]
[414] Brief Narration, in Maine Hist. Coll., ii. 27, and Dexter’s Mourt’s Relation, p. 86.
[415] Generall Historie.
[416] Bradford’s Plimouth Plantation in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll., iii. 95. Mourt’s Relation says that Hunt took seven Indians from Cape Cod. Dexter’s Mourt’s Relation, p. 86. Dermer says that Squanto was captured in Maine.
[417] See the Hakluyt Society’s publication, edited by Markham, The Hawkins Voyages, 1878.
[418] See the letter in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1874, p. 248; and the Cotton Manuscripts, British Museum. Also Neill’s Colonization, p. 91.
[419] Gorges in Brief Narration, ch. xiv., and New England’s Trials, p. 11, in Force’s Tracts. Briefe Relation of the President and Council, Purchas, iv. 1830; also in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., i. Prince’s New England Chronology, Boston, 1736, p. 64, and Dermer’s letter in 2 New York Hist. Coll., i. 350.
[420] Doc. Hist. of New York, i. [This is a map “Della nuova Belgia è parte della nuova Anglia,” of which a portion is given in fac-simile in chapter ix. of the present volume. The editor of the Doc. Hist. gives no clew to its origin, but it can be traced to Carta II., in Robert Dudley’s Dell Arcano del Mare, Firenze, 1647.—Ed.] See, on the tourists in the New World, Verrazano the Explorer, p. 65.
[421] [It may be worth mentioning that the map in the Libro di Benedetto Bordone, 1528, gives “Norbegia” as the form of the name. Carter-Brown Catalogue, no. 91. The matter will be further considered in connection with the French explorers in another volume.—Ed.]
[422] [It is described in the Catalogue of the MS. Maps, etc., in the British Museum, 1844, i. 23; and map no. 17 shows the east coast of North America from 6° N. to 51° N.; and no. 20, both hemispheres. Malte Brun describes it in his Histoire de la Géographie, Ed. Huot., i. 631.—Ed.]