. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . 14 OUR COUNTRYS STORY North America discovered. CABOT DESCRIBING HIS VOYAGE TO THE ENGLISH KING(From an old engraving) trouble with Spain if he should send out explorers. After a while,however, he gave John Cabot the royal permission to cross theocean on condition that he received one fifth of the profits of theenterprise. In 1497, just before Columbus went on his third voy-age, John Cabot set sail. He is thought to have steered almostdirectly west and to have been the first European to have aglimpse of Xorth America, though w
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . 14 OUR COUNTRYS STORY North America discovered. CABOT DESCRIBING HIS VOYAGE TO THE ENGLISH KING(From an old engraving) trouble with Spain if he should send out explorers. After a while,however, he gave John Cabot the royal permission to cross theocean on condition that he received one fifth of the profits of theenterprise. In 1497, just before Columbus went on his third voy-age, John Cabot set sail. He is thought to have steered almostdirectly west and to have been the first European to have aglimpse of Xorth America, though whether he sighted land first atLabrador, at Newfoundland, or at Cape Breton, no one can tell. When he came home he was received in England with as muchrejoicing as Spain had made over Columbus. An Italian who wasliving in England wrote to his friends in Italy, Honors areheaped upon Cabot, he is called Grand Admiral, he is dressed insilk, and the English run after him like mad men. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 15 The next year Cabot and his son made another voyage andcruised along the coast perhaps as far as Sou
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