David Ingram (explorer)

[3]: 24 Ingram signed on with English privateer Sir John Hawkins in 1567 to raid and trade along the coasts of Portuguese Africa and Spanish Mexico.[1]: 20 [7] Ingram described North America as a fertile and pleasant land, reporting its vast plains and diverse forests.[8] Ingram's descriptions are fanciful, perhaps derived from things he had seen or heard about in his travels near the coasts of West Africa and South America.[10] The account written by Walsingham was published in 1589 in Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation.On the omission of Ingram's account from Hakluyt's second edition, Purchas commented that "It seemeth some incredibilities of his reports caused him to leave him out in the next impression, the reward of lying [being] not to be believed in truths.”[8] In 1999, British writer Richard Nathan attempted to see if the Ingram's journey was physically possible in only 11 months.
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