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Inasmuch 



John Cabot 

 About 1490 



August 23rd, 

 1497 



Portuguese 

 Voyages, 



May 12th, 1500 



1502 



Greenland 

 Discovered 



About the end of the fifteenth century John 

 Cabot came to England and settled in Bristol. 

 A few years later the Spanish Minister in London, 

 wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella &quot;For the last 

 seven years the Bristol people have equipped 

 every year, two, three, or four caravels to go in 

 search of the islands of Brazil and of the Seven 

 Cities following the imagination of this Genoese.&quot; 

 Lorenzo Pasqualigo wrote to his two brothers in 

 Venice: &quot;Our Venetian, who set out with a little 

 ship from Bristol to find new islands, has returned, 

 and says that he has discovered 700 leagues away 

 the mainland of the Kingdom of the Great Khan 

 (China) , and that he sailed three hundred leagues 

 along its coast and landed, but saw no people; 

 but he brought here to the King some snares 

 that were set up to catch game, and a needle 

 for making nets, and he found some trees with 

 cuts in them, from which he concluded that there 

 were inhabitants.&quot; 



Certain Portuguese navigators were the next 

 to take up the pursuit; under the authority of 

 letters patent, granted by King Manuel, to 

 Gaspar Corte-Real &quot;to search for and find cer 

 tain islands and mainland.&quot; One result was the 

 discovery of Greenland. To record this feat the 

 Duke of Ferrara had a map made, having a re 

 markably good representation of southern Green 

 land, with the note attached: 



&quot;This country which was discovered by the 



command of the most highly renowned Prince 



Dom Manuel, King of Portugal, is a point of 



