A history of the United States for schools . daring sailors in the world. In their long ™— like long boats propelled with oars and sails—theymade their way to such distant places as Constantinople,and even through arctic waters to the White Sea and toBaffins Bay. In 874 they settled Iceland, and in 986they founded on the southwestern coast of Greenland,near Cape Farewell, a colony which lasted until the fif-teenth century, and has left behind it the interesting ruins 20 INTRODUCTORY. Ch. IL of several stone-built villages and churches. Seamensailing to this colony from Iceland were dri
A history of the United States for schools . daring sailors in the world. In their long ™— like long boats propelled with oars and sails—theymade their way to such distant places as Constantinople,and even through arctic waters to the White Sea and toBaffins Bay. In 874 they settled Iceland, and in 986they founded on the southwestern coast of Greenland,near Cape Farewell, a colony which lasted until the fif-teenth century, and has left behind it the interesting ruins 20 INTRODUCTORY. Ch. IL of several stone-built villages and churches. Seamensailing to this colony from Iceland were driven out oftheir way, and caught glimpses of the coast of the year looo Leif, son of Eric the Red, sailed fromGreenland with one ship and a crew of thirty-five men, tosee what he could find on this coast. He stopped andlanded at several points, the last of which he called Vin-land (Vine-land) because he found quantities ofwild grapes there. This place was probablysomewhere on the coast of Massachusetts Bay. During NORSE the next twelve years several voyages were made to Vin-land, chiefly for timber, of which there was a scarcity inGreenland. One of the explorers, Thorfinn Karlsefni,went with three ships, one hundred and sixty men, and anumber of cattle, intending to found a colony in Vinland 1 From a drawing by M. J. Bums. §§ II, 12. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. 21 But the Indians slew several of his people, and made somuch trouble for him that after three years he gave uphis enterprise and went away. Our Icelandic chronicles,^which are clearly based on the reports of eye-witnesses,give vivid and accurate accounts of the Indians and theirpeculiar methods of trading and fighting, besides men-tioning many of the animals, plants, and fish charac-teristic of this coast. They do not mention any furtherattempts to found a colony, though occasional voyagesseem to have been made to Vinland for timber. Al-though the Northmen probably made a few flying v
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