Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . asewith the union of the Anglo-Saxons. The ani))ition and vast designs of Russiaare forcing the other nations to condjine for protection, and a close alliance ofall the Teutonic peoples is possible, combined to resist the Slavic outgrowth,and eventually perhaps to i)lace the destinies of the woi-ld in the hands of thesetwo great races, the Teutonic and the Slavic. All this may be looking overfar into the fnture. All that can
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . asewith the union of the Anglo-Saxons. The ani))ition and vast designs of Russiaare forcing the other nations to condjine for protection, and a close alliance ofall the Teutonic peoples is possible, combined to resist the Slavic outgrowth,and eventually perhaps to i)lace the destinies of the woi-ld in the hands of thesetwo great races, the Teutonic and the Slavic. All this may be looking overfar into the fnture. All that can be said nowis that our now ])ossessions have placed u])on us new duties and new resjwnsi-bilities, and may effectually break that policy of political isolation which wehave so long maintained, and throw us into the caldron of world jiolitics to takeour part in sliaping the future of the uncivilized races. For this we are surelystrong enougli, enterprising enough, and moral enough ; and whatever ourrecord, it is not likely to be one of defeat, of injustice and oppression, or of for-getfulness of the duty of nations and the rights of man. CHARLES MORRIS. July, CHAPTER AND EXPLORATION. ihe Visits of the Northmen to the Now World—The InJians and Mound Builders—Christopher Co-lumbus—His Discovery of America—Amerigo Vespucci—John Cabot—Spanish Explurers—Balboa—His Discovery of the Pacific——Ponce de Leun—De Narvaez—De Soto—Menendez—French Explorers—Verrazzani—Cartier—Ribault—Laudonniere — Cliamplain — La Salle—EnglishExplorers—S\T Hu?h Willuughbj—Martin Frobisher—Sir Humphrey Gilbert—Sir Walter Raleigh—The Lost Colony—Z)«?c/i Explore)—Henry Hudson. THE NOKTHMEN. It has been established beyond question that thefirst white visitors to the New World were Northmen, asthe inhabitants of Norway and Sweden were called. Theywere bold and hardy sailors, who ventured fuither outupon the unknown sea than any oth
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