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Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.
Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, October of 1500
Columbus, Christopher. Letter to Dona Juana de Torres. Oct. 1500.
Referring to an island located in what is now the Bahamas.
Columbus, Christopher. Journal entry. 12 Oct. 1492.
Columbus, Christopher. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493, translated by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Columbus, Christopher. Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage. Oct. 1498.
Columbus, Christopher. "Narrative of the third voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Indies, in which he discovered the mainland, dispatched to the sovereigns from the island of hispanola." The Four Voyages, translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin Classics, 1992.
Describing the natives of what came to be called Hispaniola.
Columbus, Christopher. Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage. 15 Feb. 1493 - 4 Mar. 1493.
Columbas, Christopher. "Letter to various persons describing the results of his first voyage and written on the return journey." The Four Voyages, translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin Classics, 1992.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas P. Roche and C. Patrick O'Donnell. Penguin Classics, 1979, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.
Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.
Raleigh, Walter. Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen. London, 1655, I. 1.
Raleigh, Walter. "Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.
Raleigh, Walter. Walsinghame. London, c. 1580, I. 41.
Raleigh, Walter. "As You Came from the Holy Land." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 41.
Livingstone, David. Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857, ch. 13.
On the discovery of America.
Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici. c. Mar. 1503.
Vespucci, Amerigo. "From Mundus Novus (Letter on His Third Voyage to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici, 1503)." Early American Writing, edited by Giles Gunn. Penguin Classics, 1994.
Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.
Raleigh, Walter. Even Such is Time. London, c. 1618, I. 1.
Raleigh, Walter. "Even Such is Time." Great Short Poems. Dover Publications, 2000, I. 1.
Cook, James. Diary entry. 30 Jan. 1774.
Cook, James. The Journals of Captain Cook. Penguin Classics, 2000.
Raleigh, Walter. The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes. London: Ben Jonson, 1614, bk. 5, ch. 6.
Spenser, Edmund. "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie." The Faerie Queene. London: Mathew Lownes, 1609, canto 7, st. 47.
Spenser, Edmund. "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie." Spenser: The Faerie Queene, edited by A. C. Hamilton, Hiroshi Yamashita, and Toshiyuki Suzuki. Longman, 2006.
Cousteau, Jacques. "Consumer Society Is the Enemy." Interviewed by Nathan Gardels. New Perspectives Quarterly, 1999.
On the South Pole.
Scott, Robert Falcon. Diary entry. 17 Jan. 1912.
Scott, Robert Falcon. "Wednesday, January 17 [1912]." Scott's Last Expedition. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Raleigh, Walter. "A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c." The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt. Vol. 8, Oxford University Press, 1829.