A history of the American nation . ime had far better maps of the whole Mediterraneanregion, maps which were made for real service; but they seem to havereceived little attention from scholars. DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION merchant and the mariner. The early voyages had little imme-diate concern with attempts to reach Asia; but as the yearswent by a new route to the East was found, and, moreover,in the western ocean, one sea-captain, as we know, bolderand steadier than the rest, stumbled upon a continent. From the earliest dawn of history, the Mediterranean hadbeen the great sea, the center of th
A history of the American nation . ime had far better maps of the whole Mediterraneanregion, maps which were made for real service; but they seem to havereceived little attention from scholars. DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION merchant and the mariner. The early voyages had little imme-diate concern with attempts to reach Asia; but as the yearswent by a new route to the East was found, and, moreover,in the western ocean, one sea-captain, as we know, bolderand steadier than the rest, stumbled upon a continent. From the earliest dawn of history, the Mediterranean hadbeen the great sea, the center of the earth. The ocean wasThe Portuguese ^^^ ^^^ ^^ darkness; men feared to go out uponmariners of the its fcarful Waters. But in the fifteenth century themariners began to pluck up courage and to makeventuresome voyages along the coast of the stimulating advice and encouragement of PrinceHenry of Portugal, who won the title of Henry the Navigator,Portuguese seamen went out year after year, on voyages of Building a Ship of the Fifteenth Century discovery toward the south, and by their hardy bravery gainedskill in seamanship and helped to dispel the terrors of theocean.^ It is a great story, this tale of the new, bold seaman- 1 Men thought in the early days, they had long thought, that just as itgrew colder and colder as men went farther north, so it grew hotter andhotter as they went south, till none could live. The capes on the westerncoast of Africa tell in themselves the tale of the effort to get southward—Cape Non, that is Cape No; Cape Bojador, the bulging cape; CapeBlanco, the white cape; Cape Verde, the green cape. On the green 6 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION ship, and it helped to bring important results. After Henrysdeath (1460) the work went on, and before the end of thecentury (1497) Vasco da Gama, rounding the Cape of GoodHope, made his way northward to India, and returned with acargo of the coveted spices of the far East. The voyages
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