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New Light on Vicente Gonzalez's 1588 Voyage in Search of Raleigh's English Colonies
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21487
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Abstract:
In this 16th century memorandum, Spanish explorer Vicente Gonzalez gives a Spanish perspective on the colonization strategy of the middle latitudes of North America. Numerous scholars have presumed Gonzalez wrote the memorandum in 1588 after he discovered evidence of an English colony on Roanoke Island. A review of Gonzalez's career indicates that the memorandum was written in 1586 and summarizes his voyages and discoveries of 1582. The memorandum in question in fact led in part to Gonzalez's 1588 explorations. The memorandum indicates a miscalculation, on part of the Spanish, towards the profitability of establishing colonies in modern day Virginia and the Carolinas.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 63 Issue 2, Apr 1986,
p199-223 , il, por, map, f
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