Note 39 — Chapter I

Recherches sur les voyages et découvertes des navigateurs Normands. 8vo, Paris, 1832. M. Estancelin gives (pp. 216-240) a translation of the Italian version of the great captain’s discourse. He thinks that it may have been written by Pierre Mauclerc, the astronomer of the “Sacre,” one of Parmentier’s vessels; but MM. d’Avezac and Margry attribute it to Pierre Crignon, who was also of Parmentier’s company. See Introduction to the Bref Récit of Jacques Cartier, p. vii; and Margry’s Les Navigations Françaises, pp. 130, 199. The Journal of the Sumatra voyage was found by M. Estancelin among the papers of a M. Tarbé at Sens, who inherited it from his brother, a merchant at Rouen; see Recherches, pp. 191, 192. M. Harrisse (Jean et Sébastien Cabot, pp. 301-303) describes two other manuscripts relating to Parmentier’s voyage, the more important of which will be published in the series of Voyages of which the Cabot is the first volume. Cf. Murphy, Verrazzano, p. 85; Hakluyt, Westerne Planting, p. 197.