The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . s and atthe Philippines, where Magel-lan was killed in a fight withthe natives. Thence the squad-ron proceeded to the Moluccas,where one ship was burned andanother condemned as unsea-worthy. After three years ofhardship and suffering, oneship, with eighteen starved andscurvy-stricken men, sailed in-to the Guadalquivir River ofSpain. The surviving ship ofthe squadron had sailed around the world.^ Even after Magellans voyage, it was more than half a centurybefore the fact that America was a continent was fully w
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . s and atthe Philippines, where Magel-lan was killed in a fight withthe natives. Thence the squad-ron proceeded to the Moluccas,where one ship was burned andanother condemned as unsea-worthy. After three years ofhardship and suffering, oneship, with eighteen starved andscurvy-stricken men, sailed in-to the Guadalquivir River ofSpain. The surviving ship ofthe squadron had sailed around the world.^ Even after Magellans voyage, it was more than half a centurybefore the fact that America was a continent was fully work of discovery and exploration was necessary. Firstamong these explorations was the voyage of Sir Francis Drake(1577-1580). Drake passed through the Strait of Magellan andskirted the west coast of the continent to a point a little waynorth of San Francisco Bay. He returned to England by way 1 The captain of the surviving ship secured a royal coat of arms bearing a globeupon wliich was iuscribed the legend, Primus eircumdedisti me (thou first cir-cumscribedst me).. -rvsi^Ji The Tomb of Magellan, on theSpot wheee He fell. 16 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION of the Molucca Islands. Martin Frobislier (1576-1578), JohnDavis (1585-1587), Henry Hudson (1607-1609), and WilliamBaffin (1615) visited the coast along the northeast in search of aroute to Asia. It was more than two centuries after Magellansvoyage (1728) that the strait which separates America from Asiawas discovered by Veit Bering. The Spaniards in North America. — Many daring men, in theservice of Spain, explored the coasts and inland region of NorthAmerica. Vicente Pinzon and Juan Solis (1498) explored the South Atlan-tic and Gulf coasts. Ponce de Leon, governor of Porto Eico (1513), discovered Floridawhile seeking the fountain of perpetual youth. Alvarez de Pineda (1519) explored the Gulf Coast and entered theriver de Santo Espiritu — probably Mobile Bay and River, pos-sibly the Mississippi or Appalachi
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