Note 93 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

See vol. i. 226, 274; ii. 243, 267; iii. 10; cf. Biddle, 184-187, 311, who doubts as to Cabot’s appointment as “grand pilot,” as asserted by Hakluyt. [Davis, in his World’s Hydrographical Descriptions, does not give him any official title in 1595. “Sebastian Gabota, an expert pilot, and a man reported of speciall judgment, who being that wayes imployed returned without successe.” Davis’s Voyages (Hakluyt Soc.), p. 195.—Ed.]