A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . m fever, and he expired on the21st of the month. Fearful that the news of his death would incite the Indiansto attack them, liis survivors wrapped the body in blankets, weighted it withstones, and at midnight rowed stealthily out into the river and let it sink fromsight. There was something fitting in the fact that the Mississippi should j^rovethe last resting-place of its discoverer. Pedro Menendez was
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . m fever, and he expired on the21st of the month. Fearful that the news of his death would incite the Indiansto attack them, liis survivors wrapped the body in blankets, weighted it withstones, and at midnight rowed stealthily out into the river and let it sink fromsight. There was something fitting in the fact that the Mississippi should j^rovethe last resting-place of its discoverer. Pedro Menendez was one of the most execrable miscreants that ever arrived off the coast of Florida with a large expedition and at the mouthof the St. Johns saw a number of sliips flying the flag of France. He furiouslyattacked them and drove them to sea. Then lie returned to a fine harbor whichhe had discovered and began the town of St. Augustine. This was in 1565,and St. Augustine is, therefore, the oldest settlement within the jiresent limitsof the United States, excluding those founded in some of our colonial pos-sessions. Let us now turn attfintion to the French explorations. France in those. iEABCH FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BV PONCE OE LEON. gW 40 DmCOVEEY AND EXPLORATION. days was a spirited rival of Spain, and, in 1524, slie seat out a fleet of fourvessels under the command of Verrazzani, who, strange as it may seem, was alsoan Italian. Two months later, with only a single ship remaining, he sightedthe mainland of America, it is believed near North Carolina, from which pointhe coasted northward along New England, He gave the name of New Franceto all the countries he visited, but his account of liis explorations is so vaguethat it is uncertain what lands he saw. Verrazzani, however, seems to have beenthe first navigator who formed a correct idea of the size of the globe. In 1534 Jacques Cartier, with two ships, entered the mouth of the He was so imj^ressed by the deso
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