. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. me, and went to the samecoast that he had visited he left part of his men toform a colony, and went farthernorth to seek for the time he pushed northwardinto the water now known asDavis Strait, but he was stoppedby the ice there, and forced to goback. Returning to his colonyhe met with another disappoint-ment, for the men there had suf-fered so much from cold and hunger that they had not had courageto explore the country or cut down trees to build more comfortablehouses; they had just given way to their m
. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. me, and went to the samecoast that he had visited he left part of his men toform a colony, and went farthernorth to seek for the time he pushed northwardinto the water now known asDavis Strait, but he was stoppedby the ice there, and forced to goback. Returning to his colonyhe met with another disappoint-ment, for the men there had suf-fered so much from cold and hunger that they had not had courageto explore the country or cut down trees to build more comfortablehouses; they had just given way to their misery and homesickness,and had laid down in their miserable huts and many of them haddied. Cabot then took the remaining ones on board his ship againand cruised as far south as Cape Florida and then went back toEngland. When King Henry found that Cabot had again come homewithout having found the way to India, he was very angry andtreated the brave captain very coldly. He was even mean enough torefuse to pay as much of the cost of the expedition as he had prom-. N HUDSON STRAIT. 54 STORIES OF THE TH REE AMERICAS. ised because he said his agreement had been made with the elderCabot, and not with the young man. And when the next year Cabotsaid that he would make another voyage if the king would help him,his royal highness sullenly refused. So Cabot fitted out a ship andwent out to make discoveries on his own hook, but we fancy thathe was not able to make a long voyage, for history does not tell uswhere he went or what he did. We think, however, that he did notgive up his faith in a northwest passage, but he had not moneyenough at that time to fit out any more vessels of discovery. We do not know very well what Cabot did between 1500 and1512 but it is probable that when he was not journeying about hewas looking after the business that his father left in England. HenryVII had died, and Ferdinand of Spain, who was becoming veryjealous of other kings that tried to make discoveries and
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