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John Cabot’s chart, and would send home a copy of it. What 
steps followed it is difficult now to trace, but the result appears 
to be that Henry VII, never following up the discoveries after 
1498, Sebastain Cabot remained quietly at home till after the 
death of Henry, when in 1512 he took service under the king 
of Spain, oman his English and Venetian rights of dis- 
sea and plantation to lapse. Thus ended the first English 
and Venetian attempts to reach Cathay by the northwest. 
On the 380th of May, 1498, in his third voyage, Columbus 
first touched the continent of America in Venezuela, though 
Between May 15 and the 8th of October, 1501, a second voyage 
with two ships was made by Gaspar Cortereal, and laborers y 
ners, a 
and thus ended the Portuguese attempts to reach Cathay by — 
Tn 1501 New Granada, Darien, and Panama were taken pos: — 
session of for the Spanish by Bastides, and in 1501-2 Vespucct ~ 
explored the coast of Brazil for the Portuguese, it is said, as far 
as 50° S. lat., within two or three degrees of the strait, and 12 
