continent which they had already found was worth all the riches of the Indies. [Footnote 28: Barrett's _History and Antiquities of Bristol_ (Bristol, 1789), p. 172.] [Footnote 29: From Ramusio, quoted in 'a note of Sebastian Cabot's voyage of discovery' (Hakluyt's _Divers Voyages_, p. 25). For the much-vexed question of the Cabots and their voyages, reference should be made to _John Cabot the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian his son_, by Henry Harrisse, London, 1896; to the _Journal of Columbus, Cabot, and Corte Real_, edited for the Hakluyt Society by Sir Clements Markham, 1893; to Doyle's _History of the English in America_, vol. i, Appendix B, 'The Cabots and their Voyages'; and to Mr. Raymond Beazley's _John and Sebastian Cabot_ ('Builders of Greater Britain' series, 1898). The result of a great deal of learning is after all little but conjecture.] [Sidenote: _Corte Real._] The next great voyager to North America was Gaspar Corte Real, a Portuguese. Twice he sailed to the north-west, in 1500 and 1501, on the earlier voyage sighting Greenland {20} and the east coast of Newfoundland, and on the later working north from Chesapeake Bay. He was lost on the second voyage; and his brother Miguel, who went in search of him in 1502, after finding 'many entrances of rivers and havens,' was lost also.[30] [Footnote 30: The voyages of the Corte Reals are given in Purchas' _Pilgrims_, pt. 2, bk. x. See Justin Winsor, vol. iv, chap. i, on Cortereal, Verrazano, &c. See also the volume of the Hakluyt Society referred to in the previous note.] [Sidenote: _French explorers._] At the beginning of the sixteenth century, if not earlier, Frenchmen took their place among the explorers of the world, and the Norman and Breton seaports began to send their ships across the Atlantic. Denys of Honfleur is said to have reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1506; in 1508, Aubert of Dieppe brought American Indians back to France; and in 1518 Baron de Léry made the first, a stillborn, attempt to found a French colony in North America.[31] [Footnote 31: See above, p. 16, note 23.] [Sidenote: _Verrazano._]