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RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA POST (i gotta post more as my notes is piling up!)

SEBASTION CABOT-reknowned navigator and contemporary of columbus. son of a venetian merchant, b in bristol, england. no certain dates of b or d. no history before he was 20.
discoveries by columbus, infused sebastion to follow his achievements. henry VIII wished to enter maritime discovery. the cabots got a patent 1496 which empowered them to seek out, subdue, and occupy at their own charges any regions which before had 'been unknown to all christians.' set w/ royal banner + possess the territories they found as kings.
S and pa sailed from ristol in 1497 and returned after 1st discovery. 9/10/1497- "to him that found new isle, £10."
not new foundland as thought, but probably american mainland.
the most precise account of the disc. is from a map drawn by SC and engraved in 1549 by clement Adams. which hung in Queen elizabeth's gallery.
on SC's map of 1544, nothing is above the 16th parallel. island st. juan(st edward) within a gulf. st laurence. a 2nd patentto John Cabot(pa) 2/3/1498, authorized him to take 6 ships, but before the expedition, j died and SC w/ a fleet of 5 ships sailed in 1498. on this voyage, upon landing(prob hudson bay) he sought to find passage to india(why didn't anybody go south/west?. until fear of icebergs, crew mutinied, compelling him to turn around. going far south as 38º along coast. returned to E. took 300 men for colony, but landed too far north and most died. took 3 american native w/ him.
nothing of SC til 1512, where he was living in seville, engaged in map editing, death of ferdinand put end of search for NW passage to cathay and he returned to E. 1517 sailed again for A. 1518 revisited spain, appointed pilot-major, 1526 sailed again, but for south america to paraguay, forced to return to spain, back to E and maybe bristol. edward VI in 1549 granted the aged seaman a pension of 250 marks. Hakluyt(?) states that office of grand pilot of E created for him. at this time SC explained to the king the phenomenon of the variation of the needle, active in promoting the expedition of 1553 to russia, the success which gave him the life appointment to gov of muscovy Co. SB supposedly died in London in 1557, 61 years after his 1st commision from henry VIII and close to 80 yrs. place of burial unknown.

CAUL/KABUL-capital of Afghanistan, believed to be the Ortospanum or Ortospana of alexander's geographies on his march, maybe corruption of urddhasthana. 'highplace'

CACHAO/KACHO/KECHO/HECHO/KESHO-formerly Donk-king and now BACTHIAN or BAL-KING largest city of ANAM(vietnam?)

CACONGO-small kingdom of west africa, seperate from congo by river Zaire. capital Kinguela.

CADIZ-latin Gades and formerly called Cales in east spain. very scenic. commercial greatness in 17th + 18th C when a major port between spain and their colonies. Cadiz is identical w/ ancient Agadir, Gadir, or Gadir, which was a flourishing phoenician colony before classical history and continued in cathaginian hands til after punic wars when romans too it.