A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . his chagrin that thedominion and power which had fallen, or inevitably would fall, intothe hands of Spain, he had rejected. But though Spain could not beinterfered with at the south, it was still possible to find the yet undis-covered way to India by a northern passage ; there might still beunknown islands, or even continents, full of gold and h
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . his chagrin that thedominion and power which had fallen, or inevitably would fall, intothe hands of Spain, he had rejected. But though Spain could not beinterfered with at the south, it was still possible to find the yet undis-covered way to India by a northern passage ; there might still beunknown islands, or even continents, full of gold and heathen men, innorthern seas. 140 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. In 1500, accordingly, two caravels were dispatched from Portugal s ar Cor- ^^^^cr the command of Gaspar Cortereal, in search of a pas- tereai seeks g ^ ^^ India in northern latitudes. He made no settlement, a northwest o passage. 1^^^ explorcd the coast, either on that or a second voyagemade the next year, for six or seven hundred miles, as far north asthe fiftieth parallel, where his further progress was stopped by the country he called Terra de Labrador — the land of laborers —though that name was afterwards transferred to a region farther Cortereal at Labrador. The people were like Gypsies in color, well made, intelligent, andmodest; they lived in wooden houses, clothed themselves in skins andfurs, used swords made of a kind of stones, and pointed their arrowswith the same material. The country abounded with timber, espe-cially pine; the seas were full of fish of various kinds; and, w4th suchnatural advantages, added to its populousness, it was thought that itsacquisition might prove valuable to Portugal. If Cortereal did notopen a way to India, or find mines of gold to rival those of Hispaniola,at least he had discovered, as he hoped, a new Slave Coast, and heenticed or forced on board his caravels fifty-seven of the natives whomhe meant to sell as slaves. These were pr
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