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no racial characteristics ; and the same criticism may be made on the
illustrations to the first of De Bry's Voyages, which, although pub-
lished earlier, had reference to a later expedition, Raleigh's Virginia
venture of 1585. The artist, Joannes With, presumably from Ger-
many or the Netherlands, was sent out with the parties by the pub-
lisher as a special artist {ems ret gratia in illam provinciam annis

Columnam a Prafecto prima navigationclocatam
venerantur Floridenfes.

Fig. 1. — Illustration from De Bry's Voyages.

(1585-1588 misso), but though all was "dilligently observed and
expressed to the life," yet the series of men and women of the Indian
tribes has an addition of half a dozen or so of plates of ancient Brit-
ons, which the painter asserts are much the same thing, and which
certainly seem the same in his illustrations. These works were fol-
lowed in the succeeding century by many others calculated to grat-
ify the interest excited in the strange New World, containing many
illustrations of the cities, peoples, animals, and plants of America,

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