The Zúñiga chart, a manuscript map of the Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater Virginia, is a copy of a map that was probably originally drawn
by Captain John Smith, one of the Jamestown colonists. Named for Don Pedro de
Zúñiga, a Spanish ambassador to England, who sent it to King Philip III of Spain in
September 1608, the chart is significant for its insight into the locations of Indian
villages, the location of Jamestown and the architecture of James Fort, and the
concerns and. . .
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