. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . r>ANGEKS OF THE SEA OF DARKNESS(From a sixteenth century illustration) OUR COUNTRYS STORY. A NORWEGIAN SHIP Trade withAsia the ship. The waves are as high as mountains, and there are mermaids and horrible demons. A monstrous bird flies over the water, strong enough to carry oft a great ship and all the sailors; and worse than that, tSatan sometimes stretches up a great black hand as big as a cliff and draws a ship down under the sea. These stories of the dangers of the oceanwere not fairy-tales told to amuse children;they w
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . r>ANGEKS OF THE SEA OF DARKNESS(From a sixteenth century illustration) OUR COUNTRYS STORY. A NORWEGIAN SHIP Trade withAsia the ship. The waves are as high as mountains, and there are mermaids and horrible demons. A monstrous bird flies over the water, strong enough to carry oft a great ship and all the sailors; and worse than that, tSatan sometimes stretches up a great black hand as big as a cliff and draws a ship down under the sea. These stories of the dangers of the oceanwere not fairy-tales told to amuse children;they were what most men really is no wonder, then, that when thepeople of Genoa in Italy were askedto furnish funds for sending a shipacross the Atlantic to India, theylooked upon the plan as a wild andhopeless scheme. It is probable that fivehundred years before this time some hardy mariners of Norwayand Sweden sailed south from the settlement that they had madein Greenland, and even tried to found a colony in Massachusetts;but there is little reason to think that any one in Italy knewof their voyages. It w^as one of the citizens of Genoa ^^iio had
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