Transcriber’s Note
A number of typographical errors have been maintainedin the current version of this book. They are markedand the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of theseerrors is found at the end of this book.
ORIGINAL NARRATIVES
OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
REPRODUCED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
General Editor, J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph.D., LL.D.
DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN THE
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
THE NORTHMEN, COLUMBUS, AND CABOT
985-1503
ORIGINAL NARRATIVES
OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
THE NORTHMEN
COLUMBUS AND CABOT
985-1503
THE VOYAGES OF THE NORTHMEN
EDITED BY
JULIUS E. OLSON
PROFESSOR OF THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
THE VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS
AND OF JOHN CABOT
EDITED BY
EDWARD GAYLORD BOURNE, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN YALE UNIVERSITY
WITH MAPS AND A FACSIMILE
REPRODUCTION
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1906, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced in any form without
the permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons
At its annual meeting in December, 1902, the American HistoricalAssociation approved and adopted the plan of the present series, and theundersigned was chosen as its general editor. The purpose of the serieswas to provide individual readers of history, and the libraries ofschools and colleges, with a comprehensive and well-rounded collection ofthose classical narratives on which the early history of the UnitedStates is founded, or of those narratives which, if not preciselyclassical, hold the most important place as sources of American historyanterior to 1700. The reasons for undertaking such a project are for themost part obvious. No modern history, however excellent, can give thereader all that he can get from t