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Voices from the Age of Exploration: Letters of Discovery

Explore the captivating accounts of early explorers through letters that reveal their journeys and discoveries. From John Cabot's navigation toward Cuba to Vasco Núñez de Balboa's concerns about law in the New World, each excerpt offers a glimpse into the motivations and challenges faced by these adventurers. Experience the ambitions of Juan Ponce de León in Florida, the strategic plans of Christopher Columbus, and the treachery faced by Henry Hudson. Dive into the narratives that shaped our understanding of uncharted territories and the human spirit's quest for knowledge.

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Voices from the Age of Exploration: Letters of Discovery

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  1. The Age of Exploration:letters and voices • Pictures courtesy the Library of Congress • Letter excerpts and eyewitness accounts courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society’s American Journeys

  2. John Cabot “Sayled in this tracte so farre towarde the weste, that the Ilande of Cuba bee on my lefte hande, in manere in the same degree of longitude.” - John Cabot, in a letter to King Henry VII

  3. Vasco Nunez de Balboa “One thing I supplicate your majesty: that you will give orders, under a great penalty, that no bachelors of law should be allowed to come here [the New World]; for not only are they bad themselves, but they also make and contrive a thousand inequities.” - Vasco Nuñez de Balboa to Ferdinand V of Spain, 1513

  4. Juan Ponce de Leon I discovered, at my own cost and charge, the Island Florida… and now I return to that island, if it please God’s will, to settle it, being enabled to carry a number o f people… that the name of Christ may be praised there and Your Majesty served with the fruit that land produces. - Juan Ponce de Leon, in a letter to Charles V, 1521

  5. Christopher Columbus “There should go there settlers up to the number of two thousand who may want to go so as to render the possession of the country safer and cause it to be more profitable…” - Christopher Columbus, in a letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella,1493

  6. Henry Hudson The discoverie of the North-west Passage, begunne the seventeenth of Aprill, 1610, ended with his end, being treacherously exposed by some of the Companie. - Robert Juet, 1609

  7. Jacques Cartier “So we sayled with a good and prosperous wind, until the 20 of the said moneth, at which time the weather turned into stormes and tempests, the which with contrary winds, and darkenesse, endured so long that our ships being without any rest, suffered as much as any ships that ever went on seas…” - A report on Cartier’s voyage prepared for the King of France

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