ABSTRACT
Sir Sebastian Cabot and Sir Thomas Pert, with two ships, visited the coast of Brazil, and touched at the islands of Espanola and Puerto Rico. This voyage extended the sphere of English navigation, and added to the stock of nautical knowledge. " The faint heart" of Sir Thomas Pert is affirmed to have been the cause that the voyage " took none effect." Sir Thomas Pert was viceadmiral of England, and made this voyage in a vessel of 250 tons burthen, fitted out at the expence of King Henry VIII., in company with another vessel of the same size.
