The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . FOR MAKING NETS. OTHER DISCOVERIES IiV ~i was received with great honor,and he who had gone away apoor Venetian pilot was nowcalled the Great Admiral,and dressed himself in silks,after the manner of great menof that next year, accompanied by his son Sebastian he set sail with a much larger expedition, to find hi; way to Japan or China. After going far to the north, he sailed along what is now the coast of Canada and the United States as far to the south as North Carolina. But, as he did not find


The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . FOR MAKING NETS. OTHER DISCOVERIES IiV ~i was received with great honor,and he who had gone away apoor Venetian pilot was nowcalled the Great Admiral,and dressed himself in silks,after the manner of great menof that next year, accompanied by his son Sebastian he set sail with a much larger expedition, to find hi; way to Japan or China. After going far to the north, he sailed along what is now the coast of Canada and the United States as far to the south as North Carolina. But, as he did not find the riches of Asia, the English appear to have lo^i much of their interest in Western voyages. There is no account of John Cabots second re-turn, nor do we know anything about him after his sailing to America the second time. His son Sebastian, who was a great geographer, and who lived to be very old, seems to have always spoken of second voyage 1 11,1111 1 of the Cabots. the voyages as though he had made them alone, butwe now know that it was John Cabot who discoveredNorth America. Five years after Columbus sailed to Amer


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