N. de Morena or N. de Morera, name given to him by his contemporary Fray Juan de Torquemada [1] and by most authors, [2] [3] [4] [5] was a European ship pilot in the 1577–1580 expedition of Sir Francis Drake. In ill health, he was reportedly left at New Albion in 1579 and once he recovered he walked to Mexico (then New Spain). In doing so, he likely was the first European to see San Francisco Bay and likely established the incorrect idea that California was an island. [6] In only few and non-contemporaneous references, the name is given as "N. de Morena." [7]
References
- ^ John Logan Allen (1997). North American Exploration. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 433–. ISBN 0-8032-1015-9.
- ^ Dora Polk (January 1965). The Island of California: A History of the Myth. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 221–. ISBN 0-8032-8741-0.
- ^ Samuel Bawlf (1 September 2009). The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake. D&M Publishers Incorporated. pp. 331–. ISBN 978-1-926706-24-5.
- ^ Harry Kelsey (2000). Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate. Yale University Press. pp. 194–. ISBN 978-0-300-08463-4.
- ^ The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
- ^ Charles F. Lumis, ed. (1900). "Narrative of the Pilot Morera, who passed through the North Sea to the South Sea through the Strait". The Land of Sunshine, the Magazine of California and the West. No. February. pp. 184–186.
- ^ Aker, Raymond (1970). REPORT OF FINDINGS RELATING TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S ENCAMPMENT AT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE (PDF). pp. 338–340.
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