History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . 1467 ICELAND 1492 BAHAMAS. 1498 TRINIDAD. WkOTE CoLU^.liUSf. reach Japan and China by a western route. Columbus wasno carpet knight, but rather was armed cap-a-pie throughcontinuous, painstaking preparation, and long before HisHour was eager for the challenge and the test of the waitingcenturies. The steps leading to our nations Temple of Fame, ofwhich the Pilgrim and Puritan laid the foundations werebased on that corner-stone laid October 12, 1492, in SanSalvador, by Christoval Colon. It was
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . 1467 ICELAND 1492 BAHAMAS. 1498 TRINIDAD. WkOTE CoLU^.liUSf. reach Japan and China by a western route. Columbus wasno carpet knight, but rather was armed cap-a-pie throughcontinuous, painstaking preparation, and long before HisHour was eager for the challenge and the test of the waitingcenturies. The steps leading to our nations Temple of Fame, ofwhich the Pilgrim and Puritan laid the foundations werebased on that corner-stone laid October 12, 1492, in SanSalvador, by Christoval Colon. It was by one step at a timethat the Pilgrim and Puritan with their descendants in thetwentieth century became the Americans of the Hour, whostand on heights which place the world at their feet. LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 325 As the Star of the East guided the shepherds to thebirthplace of the infant Saviour, so the commercial Star ofthe East visualized to the Discoverers a possible northwestpassage. In the trail of these explorers came disease anddeath to the unhappy countries they traversed. It was dueto such hardy mariners as Columbus and Cabot that the individua
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