History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . Courtesy 0/ Jones Bros. Publishing IN THE HALF MOON. HENDRIK HUDSON. America had made indelibleimprints. Whether savingJamestown from starvation, incannibalistic days, exploringsouthern rivers for thousands of miles, or breasting a bois-terous Atlantic in frail boats along an uncharted coast lineextending far to the north, and mapping new lands, he didwork that yet abides in power. Many ploughers of the sea,some with enviable reputations, others with records badlysmirched, and with few ex
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . Courtesy 0/ Jones Bros. Publishing IN THE HALF MOON. HENDRIK HUDSON. America had made indelibleimprints. Whether savingJamestown from starvation, incannibalistic days, exploringsouthern rivers for thousands of miles, or breasting a bois-terous Atlantic in frail boats along an uncharted coast lineextending far to the north, and mapping new lands, he didwork that yet abides in power. Many ploughers of the sea,some with enviable reputations, others with records badlysmirched, and with few exceptions thoroughly infected withthe buccaneer spirit, had looked in on Norumbegas beauti-ful harbors. Captain John Smith, however, succeeded inoutweighing, outfooting, outsailing, and outmapping all ofhis predecessors and compeers, as he viewed and charted thecoast in 1614. By voice and printing press he sounded thepraises of Norumbega through the known world. Champlain and de Montz were at Quebec in 1604, fol- THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 207
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