. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. pplied to the bold sea rovers who, in theirsmall, sharp-prowed, open vessels, ravagedGreat Britain and other parts of northernand western Europe from the eighth to theeleventh centuiy. They were known to theinhabitants of the British Isles as Danes andEastmen. To the inhabitants of the easterncoasts of the Baltic and the Mediterraneanshores and of the Orkneys, the Hebrides andNorthern France, where they made per-manent settlements, thej
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. pplied to the bold sea rovers who, in theirsmall, sharp-prowed, open vessels, ravagedGreat Britain and other parts of northernand western Europe from the eighth to theeleventh centuiy. They were known to theinhabitants of the British Isles as Danes andEastmen. To the inhabitants of the easterncoasts of the Baltic and the Mediterraneanshores and of the Orkneys, the Hebrides andNorthern France, where they made per-manent settlements, thej were known asNormans. They left colonies in the FaroeIslands and in Iceland, whence some of themwent to Greenland (982). One of their navi-gators, Leif Ericson, according to legend,in 1002 \-isited the coast of New Northmen called themselves vikings,and their leaders sea-kings. They were avagorious race, fond of warlike adventureand worshipers of the gods Thor and chief causes of their plundering expedi-tions were, no doubt, the crowded populationand scarcity of food in their native homes,as well as their natural love of ORTH POLAR EX-PLORATION. The re-gion about the NorthPole of the earth is avast stretch of snow-cov-ered lands and ice-boundseas, with the averagetemperature far belowfi-eezing point. Thatsuch a region has temptedexplorers for centuries isa testimonj^ to the cour-age and perseverance in-herent in human called forth those expeditions to thefrozen north, which have cost the lives of somany brave men? The earlier expeditions,undertaken soon after Columbus led the wayto a New World, were inspired bj commercialaims. Men were desirous of finding a newwater route to India, and it was believed thata passage leading to Asia lay along the north-ern coast of North America. During the sev-enteenth century a new impetus was given toArctic exploration through the interest in theseal and whale fisheries. Later, about themiddle of t
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