. Colonial children . in a smallvessel with a crew of eighteen persons, and set outfrom Bristol, a port in the western part of this king-dom. He wandered for a long time; at length hecame to land, where he hoisted the royal standard,and took possession for his Highness ; then, havingobtained various proofs of his discovery, he returned. Since John was a foreigner and poor, he would nothave been believed if the crew, who are nearly allEnglish, and belong to Bristol, had not testified thatwhat he said was the truth. This Cabot has thedescription of the world on a chart, and also on asolid sphere
. Colonial children . in a smallvessel with a crew of eighteen persons, and set outfrom Bristol, a port in the western part of this king-dom. He wandered for a long time; at length hecame to land, where he hoisted the royal standard,and took possession for his Highness ; then, havingobtained various proofs of his discovery, he returned. Since John was a foreigner and poor, he would nothave been believed if the crew, who are nearly allEnglish, and belong to Bristol, had not testified thatwhat he said was the truth. This Cabot has thedescription of the world on a chart, and also on asolid sphere which he has made. On this he showswhere he has been. They say that the new land isexcellent and the climate is temperate ; they also saythat perhaps dye-wood and silk grow there. Theyaffirm that the sea is full of fish, which are taken notonly with a net, but also with a basket, which has astone fastened to it in order to keep it in the I have heard John Cabot himself say. Peoplelook upon him as a THE DEPARTURE OF COLUMBUS. i o Discovery of America [No. The firstman to sug-gest the nameof Americawas aGermanschool-master whosename meansMiller ofthe little,and doesnot deserveto have thecontinentsnamed forhim. The SouthSea, whichwe call thePacificOcean,whichwashed theeasternshores ofIndia andChina, waswhat most ofthe earlyEuropeanexplorers setout to , aSpanishofficer, hadheard from a 4. The Name America By Hylacomylus (1507) And the fourth part of the world halving been dis-covered by Americus, it may be called Amerige ; thatis, the land of Americus or America. Now truly, since these regions are more widelyexplored, and another fourth part is discovered byAmericus Vesputius, as may be learned from the fol-lowing letters, I do not see why any one may justlyforbid it to be named Amerige, that is, Americs Land,after Americus the discoverer, who is a man of saga-cious mind ; or call it America, since both
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