HISTORY OF CAPE HENOPEN
AND BEYOND.
IN 1498 CAPE HENLOPEN
BECAME REFUGE OF THE MUTINOIS CREWS OF THE ENGLISHMAN EXPLOR JOHN
CABOT.
Captain John Cabot
returned to King Henry VII 's England early fall of 1498 and
reported he had found the
western sea passage to Asia, the rich lands, of The Great Khan,
2100 miles west of
Ireland. However this was unproven as Cabot had brought back no
silks
nor spices. Jolly good
sport, King Henry VIII . excepted the lands he did prove to have
found as Captain of the
ship Mathew.
This lands turned out to
be Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The crew of Mathew, 18 men
had landed 24 June 1497,
which brought Captain John Cabot 10 pounds and a pension of
20 pounds a year as
reward. At that time of the year the weather was warm and green
but
Cabot was stead fast he
had reached northeast Asia.
King Henry VIII figured
Cabot had found someplace of value and the next year
outfitted two vessels
with 800 men who reached Baffin Land. Inuktitut, aka,
Qikigtaaluk,
Candian territory.
Cabot continued north
until the cold and ice caused his men to muntiny and bring
the vessels back
southward to Cape Henlopen for refuge.
Abstract: Philadelphia
Inquirer, Sunday, 9 August, 1959.
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