. Young folks library . e Ponce de Leons Search 125 other ships, guided by the experienced old woman ofthe isles, and by another Indian. As to Juan Ponce,he made the best of his way back to Porto Rico, wherehe arrived infinitely poorer in purse and wrinkled inbrow, by this cruise after inexhaustible riches and per-petual youth. He had not been long in port when his trusty envoy,Juan Perez, likewise arrived. Guided by the sage oldwoman, he had succeeded in finding the long-sought-forBimini. He described it as being large, verdant, andcovered with beautiful groves. There were crystalsprings and
. Young folks library . e Ponce de Leons Search 125 other ships, guided by the experienced old woman ofthe isles, and by another Indian. As to Juan Ponce,he made the best of his way back to Porto Rico, wherehe arrived infinitely poorer in purse and wrinkled inbrow, by this cruise after inexhaustible riches and per-petual youth. He had not been long in port when his trusty envoy,Juan Perez, likewise arrived. Guided by the sage oldwoman, he had succeeded in finding the long-sought-forBimini. He described it as being large, verdant, andcovered with beautiful groves. There were crystalsprings and limpid streams in abundance, which keptthe island in perpetual verdure, but none that couldrestore to an old man the vernal greenness of his youth. Thus ended the romantic expedition of Juan Poncede Leon. Like many other pursuits of a chimera, itterminated in the acquisition of a substantial he had failed in finding the fairy fountain ofyouth, he had discovered in place of it the importantcountry of A VOYAGE ALONG THE ATLANTICCOAST By captain JOHN VERRAZANO.(Tbanslated by Joseph G. Cogswell.) N the 17tli of last January we setsail from a desolate rock near theisland of Madeira, belonging to hismost serene Majesty the King of Por-tugal, with fifty men; having provis-ions sufficient for eight months, arms,and other warhke munition and navalstores. Sailing westward with a lightand pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues. On the 24thof February we encountered as violent a hurricane asany ship ever weathered, from which we escaped unhurtby the divine assistance and goodness, to the praise ofthe glorious and fortunate name of our good ship, thathad been able to support the violent tossing of thewaves. Pursuing our voyage towards the west, a little north-wardly, in twenty-four days more, having run four him-dred leagues, we reached a new country which hadnever before been seen by any one either in ancient ormodem times. At first
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