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British Travel Accounts on Argentina Before 1810
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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British curiosity about Spanish possessions in the New World was manifested as early as 1516, when a certain Thomas Pert, in the company of Sebastian Cabot, is said to have penetrated the South American seas, and to have made a half-hearted attempt at a landing at the island of Hispaniola.
There were instances of English sailors in the service of Spain who accompanied some of the very earliest South American expeditions. One is said to have been with Pizarro, and three—John Rutter of London, Nicholas Coleman of Hampton, and Richard Limon of Plymouth—were members of Pedro Mendoza's crew in 1534, when he sailed to the mouth of the Río de la Plata.
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