. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... .?j^g^t t^i^^^^^ UNITED STATES ARMORED CRUISER BROOKLYN. UNITED STATES ARMORED CRUISER NEW YORK STRANGE PEOPLE IN A STRANGE LAND. 29 distant when the last trace left of the red manin America will be his memory. Old Traditions. Whether any white men ever trod theshores of America previous to the coming ofColumbus is a disputed question. It would/seem, however, that, several centuries previ-ous to his discovery, a Norwegian vessel fromIceland to Greenland was
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... .?j^g^t t^i^^^^^ UNITED STATES ARMORED CRUISER BROOKLYN. UNITED STATES ARMORED CRUISER NEW YORK STRANGE PEOPLE IN A STRANGE LAND. 29 distant when the last trace left of the red manin America will be his memory. Old Traditions. Whether any white men ever trod theshores of America previous to the coming ofColumbus is a disputed question. It would/seem, however, that, several centuries previ-ous to his discovery, a Norwegian vessel fromIceland to Greenland was driven out of hercourse by storms to the coast of Labradoror Newfoundland. The national pride of theIcelanders and the Danes has led them toaccept as literal history the traditions of theirrace concerning this voyage, and they havegiven it a definite date. According to themthis voyage took place in A. D. 986, and wasfollowed in looi by a voyage of Lief Erick-son, an Icelandic navigator, who is said tohave discovered America, reaching Labradorfirst, and then sailing southward to Newportand New York harbors. This voyage issaid to have led the way to the furtherexploration of the coast as f
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