Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 240 original illustrations. See 50987-h.htm or 50987-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50987/50987-h/50987-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50987/50987-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/narrcrithistory03winsrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: nascim^o). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: C^{no}). English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689 [Illustration] NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society VOL. III Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1884, by James R. Osgood and Company. All rights reserved. CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. [_The English arms on the title are copied from the Molineaux map, dated 1600._] PAGE CHAPTER I. THE VOYAGES OF THE CABOTS. _Charles Deane_ 1 ILLUSTRATION: Sebastian Cabot, 5. AUTOGRAPHS: Henry VII., 1; Henry VIII., 4; Edward VI., 6; Queen Mary, 7. CRITICAL ESSAY 7 ILLUSTRATIONS: La Cosa map (1500), _phototype_, 8, 8; Ruysch’s map (1508), 9; Orontius Fine’s map (1531), 11; Stobnicza’s map (1512), 13; Page of Peter Martyr in fac-simile, 15; Thorne’s map (1527), 17; Sebastian Cabot’s map (1544), 22; Lok’s map (1582), 40; Hakluyt-Martyr map (1587), 42; Portuguese Portolano (1514-1520), 56. CHAPTER II. HAWKINS AND DRAKE. _Edward E. Hale_ 59 ILLUSTRATIONS: John Hawkins, 61; Zaltieri’s map (1566), 67; Furlano’s map (1574), 68. AUTOGRAPHS: John Hawkins, 61; Francis Drake, 65. CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAKE’S BAY 74 ILLUSTRATIONS: Modern map of California coast, 74; Viscaino’s map (1602), 75; Dudley’s map (1646), 76, 77; Jeffreys’ sketch-map (1753), 77. NOTES ON THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. _The Editor_ 78 ILLUSTRATIONS: Hondius’s map, 79; Portus Novæ Albionis, 80; Molineaux’s map (1600), 80; Sir Francis Drake, 81, 84; Thomas Cavendish, 83. CHAPTER III. EXPLORATIONS TO THE NORTH-WEST. _Charles C. Smith_ 85