A first book in American history with European beginnings . 123. Flag of the Dutch EastIndia Company. Note. — The color of theupper stripe is yellow, thenext white with the letters inblack; the lower stripe is blue. A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY Moon through the great blocks of ice which lie on everyhand. Think of the piercing cold of this snow-bound re-gion. Listen to the frightened complaints of the sailorsas they stoutly refuse to go on. And then ask yourselfwhat you would do. Would you turn back, disheartened,or would you muster all your courage and try the next best course? Henry Hud-s
A first book in American history with European beginnings . 123. Flag of the Dutch EastIndia Company. Note. — The color of theupper stripe is yellow, thenext white with the letters inblack; the lower stripe is blue. A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY Moon through the great blocks of ice which lie on everyhand. Think of the piercing cold of this snow-bound re-gion. Listen to the frightened complaints of the sailorsas they stoutly refuse to go on. And then ask yourselfwhat you would do. Would you turn back, disheartened,or would you muster all your courage and try the next best course? Henry Hud-son chose the latter. Now, it happenedthat Captain JohnSmith and Henry Hud-son were great friends;and John Smith hadwritten to Hudsonfrom Virginia of aneffort he himself hadmade to find a passageacross the new conti-nent. He had sailedup Chesapeake Bayand proved that therewas no passage thatway. Still he thoughtthere might be onefarther to the as he was in his endeavors to sail around thenorth of Europe, Hudson remembered what Captain Smithhad sa
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