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4 VERAZANI—JACQUES CARTIER.

his standard, and take possession of the same, as vas- sals of the crown of England.

Thus began the history of English discoveries; and Cabot this year, with two ships, reached the coast of Labrador. He made a voyage the following year, and, on the 24th of June, discovered Bonavista, in Newfoundland. He then, with his son Sebastian, traversed the coast of America from Davis’ Straits to Cape Florida?‘6

In 1502 Sebastian Cabot, under English auspices,

arrived at Newfoundland, and was the first European who entered the Gulf of St Lawrence. He explored

part of‘its coasts, and carried from St John’s Island, (now Prince Edward’s,) which he discovered, three natives to England.

It was twenty-one years after Sebastian Cabot dis- covered the Gulf of St Lawrence, that Francis I. of France dispatched Verazani, who coasted the shores of America from 28" to 500 north latitude. This adventurous navigator was shipwrecked, and perish~ ed, on his third voyage.

Jacques Cartier of St Maloes, in 1534, sailed from France on a voyage of discovery, and entered the Gulf of St Lawrence on the festival of that saint, to which it owes its name.

The following year, he sailed up the great H0871— Zaga, which he called the St Lawrence, and wintered in Canada, which he named New France.

* There appears some uncertainty as to whether Sebastian alone, or accompanied by his father, made the two latter voyages.