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Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
John and Sebastian Cabot
[Sebastian Cabot explained their rationale for choosing to be the first Englishmen to attempt a voyage of exploration to the Western hemisphere:]
. . . newes were brought that Don Christopher Colonus Genuese had discovered the coasts of India, whereof was great talke in all the Court of King Henry the 7. who then raigned, insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine then humane, to saile by the West into the East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing. I thereupon caused the King to be advertised of my devise, who immediatly commanded two Carvels to bee furnished with all things appertayning to the voyage, which was as farre as I remember in the yeere 1496. in the beginning of Sommer. I began therefore to saile toward the Northwest, not thinking to finde any other land then that of Cathay, & from thence to turne toward India, but after certaine dayes I found that the land ranne towards the North, which was to nice a great displeasure. Neverthelesse, sayling along by the coast [of Labrador] to see if I could finde any gulfe that turned, I found the lande still continent to the 56. degree under our Pole. And seeing that there the coast turned toward the East, despairing to finde the passage, I turned backe againe, and sailed downe by the coast of that land toward the Equinoctiall (ever with intent to finde the saide passage to India) and came to that part of this firme lande which is nowe called Florida, where my victuals failing, I departed from thence and returned into England, where I found great tumults among the people, and preparation for warres in Scotland: by reason whereof there was no more consideration had to this voyage.
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Chicago: John and Sebastian Cabot, "Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, ed. Hakluyt, Richard in Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (New York: Viking Press, [1965]), Original Sources, accessed May 18, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=F42SUPTE7PIWWWY.
MLA: Cabot, John and Sebastian. "Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation." Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, edited by Hakluyt, Richard, in Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, New York, Viking Press, [1965], Original Sources. 18 May. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=F42SUPTE7PIWWWY.
Harvard: Cabot, J, 'Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation' in Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, ed. . cited in [1965], Cabots Reasons for Exploration, as Cited in the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Viking Press, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 May 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=F42SUPTE7PIWWWY.
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