carried northward by the Gulf Stream. Early in June Cabot
reached the east coast of Greenland, and as Fernandes was the first who had
told him of this country he named it the Labrador's Land.

In the hope of finding a passage Cabot proceeded northward along the coast.
As he advanced, the cold became more intense and the icebergs thicker and
larger. It was also noticed that the land trended eastward. As a result on
the 11th of June in latitude 67 deg. 30' the crews mutinied and refused to
proceed farther in that direction. Cabot had no alternative but to put his
ships about and look for a passage towards the south. Rounding Cape
Farewell he explored the southern coast of Greenland and then made his way
a certain distance up the west coast. Here again his progress was checked
by icebergs, whereupon a course was set towards the west. Crossing Davis
Strait Cabot reached our modern Baffin Land in 66 deg.. Judging this to be the
Asiatic mainland, he set off southward in search of Cipangu. South of
Hudson Strait a little bartering was done with the Indians, but these could
offer nothing in exchange but furs. Our strait of Belle Isle was mistaken
for an ordinary bay, and Newfoundland was regarded by Cabot as the main
shore itself. Rounding Cape Race he visited once more the region explored
in the previous summer, and then proceeded to follow the coast of our Nova
Scotia and New England in search of Cipangu. He made his way as far south
as the thirty-eighth parallel, when the absence of all signs of eastern
civilization and the low state of his stores forced him to abandon all hope
of reaching Cipangu on this voyage. Accordingly the ships were put about
and a course set for England, where they arrived safely late in the autumn
of 1498. Not long after his return John Cabot died.

His son, SEBASTIAN CABOT (1476-1557),[2] is not independently heard of
until May 1512, when he was paid twenty shillings "for making a carde of
Gascoigne and Guyenne", whither he accompanied the English army sent that
year by Henry VIII. to aid his father-in-law Ferdinand of Aragon against
the French. Since Ferdinand and his daughter Joanna were contemplating the
dispatch of an expedition from Santander to explore Newfoundland, Sebastian
was questioned about this coast by the king's councillors. As a result
Ferdinand summoned him in September 1512 to Logrono, and on the 30th of
October appointed him a captain in the navy at a salary of 50,000 maravedis
a