In addition to the general histories already mentioned,
the following works contain much information on the
voyages of the forerunners of Jacques Cartier: Parkman's
'Pioneers of France'; Kohl's 'Discovery of Maine';
Woodbury's 'Relation of the Fisheries to the Discovery
of North America' (in this work it is claimed that the
Basques antedated the Cabots); Dawson's 'The St Lawrence
Basin and Its Borderlands'; Weise's 'The Discoveries of
America'; 'The Journal of Christopher Columbus', and
'Documents relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and
Gaspar Corte-Real', translated with Notes and an
Introduction by Sir Clements R. Markham; and Biggar's
'The Precursors of Jacques Cartier, 1497-1534'. This last
work is essential to the student of the early voyages to
America. It contains documents, many published for the
first time, in Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and
French dealing with exploration. The notes are invaluable,
and the documents, with the exception of those in French,
are carefully though freely translated.
For the native tribes of America the reader would do well
to consult the 'Handbook of American Indians North of
Mexico', published by the Bureau of American Ethnology,
and the 'Handbook of Indians of Canada', reprinted by
the Canadian Government, with additions and minor
alterations, from the preceding work, under the direction
of James White, F.
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