A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ntain alone. This was on the 26th of September, 1513, and, as Balboalooked off to the westward, his eyes rested upon the Pacific Ocean, the mightiestbody of water on the globe. He had made a grand discovery, and one which led to the conquest ofINIexico and Peru and the C(jlonization of the western coast of our sent her armed expeditions thither, and in time they overran the sectionsnamed,
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ntain alone. This was on the 26th of September, 1513, and, as Balboalooked off to the westward, his eyes rested upon the Pacific Ocean, the mightiestbody of water on the globe. He had made a grand discovery, and one which led to the conquest ofINIexico and Peru and the C(jlonization of the western coast of our sent her armed expeditions thither, and in time they overran the sectionsnamed, their footprints marked everywhere by fire and blood. Many remains FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE. 37 exist to-day in the Soutliwest of the early visits of those rapacious adventurers,during the first half of the sixteenth century. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, is abuilding made of adobe or sun-dried clay which was built in 1582. THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE. In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan coasted South America to the strait namedin his honor, and, passing through it, entered upon the vast body of water dis-=covered six years before by Balboa. Magellan gave it the name of Pacific. COLTTMBUS AND THE EGG At a dinner the Spanish courtiers, jealous of Columbus, said anyone could discover the Indies, When, at Columhus failed to malie an egg stand on its end. he showed them how to do it by flattening the end of it. Anyone could do a courtier. So anyone can discover the Indies, after I have shown the way. Ocean, and, sailing westward, discovered the Philippine Islands, which havelately acquired such importance in our history. There INIagellan died. Severalof his ships were lost, but one of them succeeded in reaching Spain after anabsence of two years. This was the first circumnavigation of the globe anddemonstrated the grandeur of the discovery made by Columbus. One of the companions of Columbus on his second voyage was Ponce deLeon. He was well on in
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