hee found so great multitudes of certaine bigge fishes much like vnto Tunies, (which the inhabitants called Baccalaos) that they sometimes stayed his shippes.  He found also the people of those regions couered with beastes skinnes, yet not without the vse of reason.  He also saieth there is great plentie of Beares in those regions which vse to eate fish:  for plunging themselues into the water, where they perceiue a multitude of these fishes to lie, they fasten their clawes in their scales, and so draw them to land and eate them, so (as he saith) the Beares being thus satisfied with fish, are not noisome to men. [Sidenote:  Copper found in many places by Cabote.] Hee declareth further, that in many places of these Regions he saw great plentie of Copper among the inhabitants.  Cabot is my very friend, whom I vse familiarly, and delight to haue sometimes keepe mee company in mine owne house.  For being called out of England by the commandement of the Catholique King of Castile, after the death of King Henry the seuenth of that name king of England, he was made one of our council and Assistants, as touching the affaires of the new Indies, looking for ships dayly to be furnished for him to discouer this hid secret of Nature.

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The testimonie of Francis Lopez de Gomara a Spaniard, in the fourth Chapter
  of the second Booke of his generall history of the West Indies concerning
  the first discouerie of a great part of the West Indies, to wit, from 58.
  to 38. degrees of latitude, by Sebastian Cabota out of England.

He which brought most certaine newes of the countrey and people of Baccalaos, saith Gomara, was Sebastian Cabote a Venetian, which rigged vp two ships at the cost of K. Henry the 7. of England, hauing great desire to traffique for the spices as the Portingalls did.  He carried with him 300. men, and tooke the way towards Island from beyond the Cape of Labrador, vntill he found himselfe in 58. degrees and better.  He made relation that in the moneth of Iuly it was so cold, and the ice so great, that hee durst not passe any further:  that the dayes were long, in a maner without any night, and for that short night that they had, it was very cleare.  Cabot feeling the cold, turned towards the West, refreshing himselfe at Baccalaos:  and afterwards he sayled along the coast vnto 38. degrees, and from thence he shaped his course to returne into England.

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A note of Sebastian Cabots[17] first discouerie of part of the Indies taken
  out of the latter part of Robert Fabians Chronicle[18] not hitherto
  printed, which is in the custodie of M. Iohn Stow[19] a diligent
  preseruer of Antiquities.