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 . se to water, that an arrow would notwhiz through the bushes from an unseen foe. Thus sore beset withhunger, disease, and danger, all their hopes of sudden wealth de-stroyed, they resolved at length to make their way to the sea. In a march of twelve or fifteen days they fought their way to the 1 At the head-waters of the Apalaeha River are the Ap
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 . se to water, that an arrow would notwhiz through the bushes from an unseen foe. Thus sore beset withhunger, disease, and danger, all their hopes of sudden wealth de-stroyed, they resolved at length to make their way to the sea. In a march of twelve or fifteen days they fought their way to the 1 At the head-waters of the Apalaeha River are the Apalachian Mountains of Georgia,to which probably the Indians referred, while the Spaniards understood them to mean thevillao-e near its mouth. 154 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. coast. Well nigh worn out they lay down upon the sands in soreperplexity and distress, behind them a country they could not livein, before them a sea over which there was but one way to the They must build vessels; but they knew not how to con-struct, nor were there tools, nor. iron, nor forge, nor tow, nor vessels. resin, nor riggmg;of their manufacture . . nor any man who had a knowledgeand, above all, there was nothing to eat while. Return to the Beach. building, for those who should labor. But invention is sometimesborn of despair. A soldier undertook to make a pair of bellows withpipes of hollow wood and deerskins, and his example was emulatedby others. The cross-bows, the stirrups, the spurs, and whatever elsethey had of iron, were beaten into nails, into axes, saws, and otherneedful tools. With these they contrived to build five boats, eachmore than thirty feet in length, the seams of which they caulked withthe fibre of the palmetto, and pitched with pine rosin; cordage wasmade of the tails and manes of the horses; the sails from the shirtsof the men. Every three days a horse was killed for food, while theboats were building, the skin of the legs taken off whole
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