A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . hat flowed into the sea. The country wasdensely populated by a people small of stature, timid, half wild, andliving in caves of the earth. Zichmni sent his ships back to Frisland,under the command of Antonio Zeno, retaining only his boats and aportion of his people; but whether he him^lf ever returned thence,or what was the subsequent fate of hi
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . hat flowed into the sea. The country wasdensely populated by a people small of stature, timid, half wild, andliving in caves of the earth. Zichmni sent his ships back to Frisland,under the command of Antonio Zeno, retaining only his boats and aportion of his people; but whether he him^lf ever returned thence,or what was the subsequent fate of him and his colony, except that hebuilt his town and explored much of the neighboring region, there isno account. The last letter of Zeno declares that he has written manyinteresting things in a book, which he should bring home with him,respecting the adventures of his brother and himself, of the princeZichmni, the many islands he reigned over, and the new lands he dis- 84 PRE-COLUMBIAN VOYAGES WESTWARD. [Chap. IV. covered; but this the youjiger Zeno had destroyed in his youth, andhere, therefore, the narrative ends. The warmest defenders of this irreconcilable story do not ventureto deny that much of it is fable, and of that which they accept as. THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN BY ANTONIO ZENO IN THE YEAR 1400 The Zeni Map. true, some of its essential facts of geography and navigation stand in need of the most ingenious explanation. It is difficult to believe that any actual navigator should have described so many islands Objections i , i i • , • i i i ^ i i i to this that had no existence m the places where he put them, both in the narrative and on a map; and quite as hard to believethat they have all been since sunk in the sea, if they ever had anexistence. If it is assumed that the requisite number, and the con-quest and discovery of those referred to, may be found by looking forthem among the Faroe Islands, the Orkneys, or the Hebrides, it ishard to reconcile such a supposition
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