. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. uguese sailors went farther south and dis-covered the IMadeira, the Canary, and the Cape AVrde Islandsand settled a colony on the Azores. Put very few, even of the boldest sailors, ventured far outon the Sea of Darkness—as the Atlantic Ocean was then called—and Avhen these came back they added to the strange storiesthat were told of seas covered with darkness and filled with EUROPE AND ITS PEOPLE. 21 LESSON.—Strange stories of the dangers on the ocean frightenedsailors, but -wonderful tales of the riches of the East incre
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. uguese sailors went farther south and dis-covered the IMadeira, the Canary, and the Cape AVrde Islandsand settled a colony on the Azores. Put very few, even of the boldest sailors, ventured far outon the Sea of Darkness—as the Atlantic Ocean was then called—and Avhen these came back they added to the strange storiesthat were told of seas covered with darkness and filled with EUROPE AND ITS PEOPLE. 21 LESSON.—Strange stories of the dangers on the ocean frightenedsailors, but -wonderful tales of the riches of the East increased the desirefor an easier trade route to India. terrible monsters,—of vast waters where the wind never blew,—of a frozen ocean,—of a huge mountain of magnetic rockwliich would draw the nails from the planks and destroy theships, and of many other dangers that beset the seaman who triedto discover the secrets that the ocean had so long were equally strange, but more pleasing stories,related by daring travelers who had crossed deserts, and. Trade Routes to India. climbed mountains,, and had braved the Turk and the Arabto find out the truth about the wonderlands of China (Cathay),Japan (Cipango), and India. These travelers told of countries whose waters would makemen always young, whose mountains were ribbed with goldand set Avith jewels, whose soil was fragrant with rich spices,and whose rivers flowed over o-olden sands. 22 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON —The Northmen visited America before the twelfth a few w^ise men then thought the earth w^as round. They believedthat, by sailing w^estward, India could be reached. Then tliere were nianv tales of the vovaii^es of the fierceNortlimeii, wlio were the boldest seamen in Europe. Theyoften sailed far from home in their little l)f)ats, and it was saidthat in the ninth century, they visited Iceland, and that, inthe tenth century, Eric the Red settled in (Greenland, while inan old Norse ta
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