Identifier: newfrancenewengl00fisk (find matches)
Title: New France and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 New England -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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Not only does the exhibition of the kidnapped Indians rest
upon independent evidence, as early as 1512,¹ but in the
edition of Ptolemy brought out in 1511 by Sylvanus there is
a map containing a square-looking gulf to the west of a spa-
cious island which is unquestionably intended for Newfound-
land, and the outlines of this gulf seem to have originated
in actual exploration and not in fancy. There is a map pre-
served in the government archives at Ottawa which purports
to be a copy of that of Jean Denys, and may well be so, for,
although the names upon it belong to a later period, there is
some reason for believing that they are a subsequent addi-
tion. If the outlines are those of Denys of Flonfleur, we
have in them a satisfactory explanation of the strange map of

¹ Eusebii chronicon, Paris, 1512, fol. 172.

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Sylvanus. Moreover, some weight must attach to the fact
that both the voyages of Denys and of Aubert are mentioned
under the years 1506 and 1508 by Ramusio.¹ There can be

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FRANCIS I

little doubt that the attention of Frenchmen was, to an
appreciable extent, drawn toward the New World during the
reign of Louis XII.

¹Ramusio. Naviiiationie viaggi, Venetia, 1550. iii. 423 : 2d ed., Vene-
tia, 1606, iii. 355. Ramusio speaks of Aubert as the first who brought
Indians to France, " il primo che condusse qui le genti del detto paese."

6 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND

Under his successor, the gay, gallant, and ambitious Francis
I., attention was still further drawn to these strange shores.
The jovial lawyer, Marc Lescarbot of Vervins, writing in 1612,
tells us that about the year 1518
a certain Baron de Lery made
an unsuccessful attempt at establishing a colony upon Sable
Island, and left there a stock of cattle and pigs which multi
-plied apace, and proved comforting and toothsome to later
adventurers.! The French had sturdy rivals in these Atlantic waters. That was the golden age of Portuguese enterprise, and one of the first results of the Cabot voyages was to stim-
ulate the curiosity of Portugal.

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