Young folks' history of the United States . hundred men; some of thesebeing Italian rogues, very likely. Such expeditionswere very popular among reckless and daring men inthose days. The explorers again went to Labrador, and then sailed three thou-sand miles along the coast,as far as Maryland. Theywere gone six months, andthen had to go back forprovisions. This secondvoyage convinced Sebas-tian Cabot that the landthey had discovered wasnot Asia, after all, but anew continent. He madestill another voyage afterthis, and explored Hud-sons Bay. Sebastian Cabot lived to be a very old man,and had a
Young folks' history of the United States . hundred men; some of thesebeing Italian rogues, very likely. Such expeditionswere very popular among reckless and daring men inthose days. The explorers again went to Labrador, and then sailed three thou-sand miles along the coast,as far as Maryland. Theywere gone six months, andthen had to go back forprovisions. This secondvoyage convinced Sebas-tian Cabot that the landthey had discovered wasnot Asia, after all, but anew continent. He madestill another voyage afterthis, and explored Hud-sons Bay. Sebastian Cabot lived to be a very old man,and had a pension from the king, and the title TheGreat Seaman. He loved the sea so much, that, evenwhile he was dying, his wandering thoughts were uponthe ocean. It was said of him, He gave England acontinent—and no one knows his burial-place. The next expedition of which I have to tell is that ofPonce de Leon to the coast of Florida. There was astory told in Spain, and believed by many people, thatthere was somewhere in the regions discovered by. SEBASTIAN CABOT. THE SUCCESSORS OF COLUMBUS. 43 Columbus a wonderful fountain, whose waters would The won-restore youth to any one who should bathe in them, de Leon was a Spaniard and a brave soldier;he had sailed with Columbus on his second voyage, andwas finally made governor of the Island of Porto he had heard of the fountain of youth, and resolvedto discover it; and so sailed westward from Porto Ricoin March, 1512, on that errand. At last, on EasterSunday, — a day which Spaniards call Pascua Flor-ida, or Flowery Easter, — land was seen. It was thepeninsula of Florida, then thought to be an island; andits blossoming forests seemed to him so beautiful, thathe gave it this name. Ponce de Leon landed near what is now St. Augus-tine. He explored the coasts and islands for manyweeks, and then returned home. He visited the floweryland again, five years after, meaning to establish acolony, but was driven away by the I
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