A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . ey ate. These spices were broughtfrom Asia by caravans. It was chiefly to get to the land ofspices by sea that Prince Henry the Navigator tried tosend ships around the southern point of Africa. Columbushad also tried to reach the Spice Islands of Asia in hisvoyage to the west. Now another Italian was to try it. This man was JohnCabot [cab-ot]. Like Columbus, he was probably born inor near the city of Genoa; like Columbus, he thought muchabout geography as it was then understood; and, like Co-lu
A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . ey ate. These spices were broughtfrom Asia by caravans. It was chiefly to get to the land ofspices by sea that Prince Henry the Navigator tried tosend ships around the southern point of Africa. Columbushad also tried to reach the Spice Islands of Asia in hisvoyage to the west. Now another Italian was to try it. This man was JohnCabot [cab-ot]. Like Columbus, he was probably born inor near the city of Genoa; like Columbus, he thought muchabout geography as it was then understood; and, like Co-lumbus, he was a great traveler. He moved to Venice andthen to Bristol in England. The Italian merchants traveled farther than any othersin that day. One of Cabots long trading journeys had carried him into Ara-bia as far as the cityof Mecca [mek-kah].Here he saw the cara-vans that brought their loads of costly spices on thebacks of camels from the countries of the East. Nowthe people of Europe in Cabots time, having very fewprinted books, knew almost nothing about these far-awayEastern JOHN CABOT AND HIS SON SEBASTIAN. I9 Where do these spices come from ? Cabot asked ofthe men belonging to the caravan. They answered that they brought them from a countryfar to the east of Mecca, where they bought spices of othercaravans which brought them from a land yet farther tothe east. From this Cabot reasoned as Columbus had done,that, if he should sail to the west far enough, he would getround the world to the land of spices. It would be some-thing like going around a house to come in by the backdoor. While Cabot was living in England there came great newsout of Spain. One Christopher Columbus, it was said, haddiscovered the coasts of India by sailing to the westward,for Columbus thought the land he had found a part of this was told in England, people thought it a thingmore divine than human to sail by the west into the when Cabot heard the story, there aros
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