Note 990 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

[This original English edition (a tract of 42 pages) is extremely scarce. There is a copy in the British Museum, from which Rich had transcripts made, one of which is now in Harvard College Library, and another is in the Carter-Brown Collection (cf. Rich, 1832, no. 40; Carter-Brown, i. 244). The text, as in the Divers Voyages, is reprinted in French’s Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida (1875), p. 159. Ribault supposed that in determining to cross the ocean in a direct westerly course, he was the first to make such an attempt, not knowing that Verrazano had already done so. Cf. Brevoort, Verrazano, p. 110; Hakluyt, Divers Voyages, edition by J. W. Jones, p. 95. See also Vol. III. p. 172.—Ed.]