. A brief history of the United States . grandeur of hisdiscovery. How the Continent was named.—Americus Vesputius (a-mer-i-cus ves-pu-she-us), a friend of Columbus, accompa- TOMB OF COLUMBUS AT HAVANA.* uied & subscqucnt expedition to * The body of Columbus was deposited in the Convent of San Francisco, Valla-dolid, Spain. It was thence transported, in 1513, to the Carthusian Monastery ofSeville, where a handsome monument was erected, by command of Ferdinand andIsabella, with the simple inscription—To Castile and Leon, Colon gave a newworld. In 1536. his body, and that of his son Diego, were
. A brief history of the United States . grandeur of hisdiscovery. How the Continent was named.—Americus Vesputius (a-mer-i-cus ves-pu-she-us), a friend of Columbus, accompa- TOMB OF COLUMBUS AT HAVANA.* uied & subscqucnt expedition to * The body of Columbus was deposited in the Convent of San Francisco, Valla-dolid, Spain. It was thence transported, in 1513, to the Carthusian Monastery ofSeville, where a handsome monument was erected, by command of Ferdinand andIsabella, with the simple inscription—To Castile and Leon, Colon gave a newworld. In 1536. his body, and that of his son Diego, were removed to the city ofSaint Domingo, Hayti, and interred in the principal chapel. But they were not per-mitted to rest even there, for in 1796 they were brought to Havana with imposingceremonies. His final resting-place in the Cathedral is marked by a slab elaboratelycarved, on which is inscribed in Spanish, Oh, rest thou, image of the great Colon,Thousand centuries remain, guarded in the um,And in the remembrance of our t499J THE CABOtS. 26 the new world. A German named Waldsee-Muller publishedan interesting account of his adventures, in which he sug-gested that the country should be called America. Thiswork, being the first description of the new world, was verypopular, and the name was soon adopted by geographers. John Cab-ot, a navigator of Bristol, England, by studyinghis charts and globes, decided, that since the degrees of longi-tude diminish in length as they approach the pole, the short-est route to India must be by sailing northwest instead of west,as Columbus had done. He easily obtained royal authorityto make the attempt. After a prosperous voyage, he came insight of the sterile region of Labrador,* and sailed along thecoast for many leagues. This was fourteen months heforeColumbus discovered the continent. Cabot supposed that hehad reached the territory of the Great Cham, king of Tar-tary. Nevertheless, he landed, planted a banner, and tookpossession i
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