CHAP. IV. Continuation of the Portuguese transactions in India, after the return of Don Stefano de Gama from Suez in 1541, to the Reduction of Portugal under the Dominion of Spain in 1581. SECT. I. Incidents during the Government of India by Don Stefano de Gama, subsequent to his Expedition to the Red Sea. II. Exploits of Antonio de Faria y Sousa in Eastern India. III. Transactions during the Government of Martin Alfonso de Sousa, from 1542 to 1543. IV. Government of India by Don Juan de Castro, from 1545 to 1548. V. Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1545 to 1564, under several Governors. VI. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1564 to the year 1571. VII. Portuguese Transactions in India from 1571 to 1576. CHAP. IV. SECT. VIII. Transactions of the Portuguese in Monomotapa, from 1569 to the end of that separate government. IX. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1576 to 1581; when the Crown of Portugal was usurped by Philip II. of Spain on the Death of the Cardinal King Henry. X. Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1581 to 1597. XI. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1597 to 1612. XII. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions, from 1512 to 1517. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. PART II. BOOK II. CONTINUED. CHAPTER XI. EARLY ENGLISH VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY TO AMERICA. INTRODUCTION. Although we have already, in the Introduction to the _Second_ Chapter of this Book, Vol. III. p. 346. given some notices of the voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot to America in the service of Henry VII. and VIII. it appears proper on the present occasion to insert a full report of every thing that is now known of these early navigations: As, although no immediate fruits were derived from these voyages, England by their means became second only to Spain in the discovery of America, and afterwards became second likewise in point of colonization in the New World. The establishments of the several English colonies will be resumed in a subsequent division of our arrangement.