A NOTE OF CERTAYNE NAVIGATIONS HERTOFFORE ATTEMPTED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF A PASSAGE THROUGHE THE STRAIGHTES OWT OF THE NORTHE SEA INTO THE SOUTH SEA.

In the countrey of America towardes the northe, aboute the sixtie degree, there is an elbowe of a land lying verie farre into the sea, which is called the head of Laborer. And on the southe side there is a verie broade bay lying towardes the weste, and of suche a breadth that it semeth, bothe in the verie entry and after, to be a greate sea, ffor yt lyeth oute aboute three or foure hundred myles, and hathe verie many ilandes, and all the yere throughe there are in the same huge heapes of ise, which bay is called Dusmendas.

Anno 1496. In the yere of our Lord 1496, in the reigne of kyng Henry the Seventh, Sebastian Cabotte, who afterward was chieffe pilot of Spayne, was sent oute of England by the said king, with two shippes, to fynd oute the passage oute of the Northe Sea unto the South, that the way into the countreys which are called Mangi Sepango and Cataya might be opened;