HENRY VIII, KING OF THE ENGLISH SEA
THE leading pioneers in the Age of Discovery were sons of Italy, Spain, and Portugal.1 Cabot, as we have seen, was an Italian, though he sailed for the English Crown and had an English crew. Columbus, too, was an Italian, though in the service of the Spanish Crown. It was the Portuguese Vasco da Gama who in the very year of John Cabot's second voyage ( 1498) found the great sea route to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Two years later the Cortereals, also Portuguese, began exploring the coasts of America as far northwest as Labrador. Twenty years later again the Portuguese Magellan, sailing for the King of Spain, discovered the strait still known by his name, passed through it into the
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Publication information:
Book title: Elizabethan Sea-Dogs:A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions.
Contributors: William Wood - Author.
Publisher: Yale University Press.
Place of publication: New Haven, CT.
Publication year: 1918.
Page number: 18.
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