De gedenkwaardige reizen vanden beroemden Capiteyn Johan Smith na Virginien; gedaan in den jare 1606. en ...

he therefore equipped a few ships, and took with him such men and women who were eager to live in peace and pass their days, who arrived with him in this newly found land in the year 1170. He left many of his own there, and went back again to fetch more people. But where this place actually was, is not mentioned in the history.

1492.The Spaniards say that a certain Hanno, Prince of Carthage, was the first, and after him Christopher Columbus, a Genoese, who was sent by them to discover this unknown part of the world.

1497.But we find it noted by several others that Columbus offered his service to King Henry the Seventh in the year 1488, but by chance performed his work for the Spaniards. Meanwhile, King Henry granted a commission to John Cabot and his three sons, Sebastian, Louis, and Sancius. John and Sebastian, well equipped, set sail and roamed through a large part of this unknown world in the year 1499. And although Columbus discovered some islands, it was nevertheless in the year 1498 before he saw this part of the world, which was the year after Cabot had discovered it. Notwithstanding that Americus Vesputius arrived there a long time afterwards, this entire region is to this day still named America after him, although Sebastian Cabot discovered much more of it than they all; for he sailed about 40 degrees south and 67 north of the Line. For this, King Henry the Eighth dubbed him a knight and made him one of the Peers of England. And when he was well-aged, King Edward the VI endowed him with an annual pension of 166 pounds, 13 shillings, 4 pence sterling. Through his orders, Sir Hugh