. Bill Nye's history of the United States. e of the sixteenthcentury the West Indies, Yucatan, Mexico, andFlorida, besides unlimited water facilities and thePeruvian preserves. North Carolina was discovered by the Frenchnavigator Verrazani, thirty years later than Cabotdid, but as Cabot did not record his claim at thecourt-house in Wilmington the Frenchman jumpedthe claim in 1524, and the property remainedabout the same till again discovered by GeorgeW. Vanderbilt in the latter part of the presentcentury. Montreal was discovered in 1535 by Cartier,also a Frenchman. Ribaut discovered South Caro
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. e of the sixteenthcentury the West Indies, Yucatan, Mexico, andFlorida, besides unlimited water facilities and thePeruvian preserves. North Carolina was discovered by the Frenchnavigator Verrazani, thirty years later than Cabotdid, but as Cabot did not record his claim at thecourt-house in Wilmington the Frenchman jumpedthe claim in 1524, and the property remainedabout the same till again discovered by GeorgeW. Vanderbilt in the latter part of the presentcentury. Montreal was discovered in 1535 by Cartier,also a Frenchman. Ribaut discovered South Carolina, and left thirty 30 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. men to hold it. They were at that time the onlywhite men from Mexico to the North Pole, and akeen business man could have bought the wholething, Indians and all, for a good team and a jugof nepenthe. But why repine ? The Jesuit missionaries about the middle of theseventeenth century pushed their way to the NorthMississippi and sought to converti^Lr^e-^ the Indians. The Jesuits deserve. CONVFHTING INDIANS. great credit for theirpatience, endurance, and industry, but they wereshocked to find the Indian averse to work. Theyalso advanced slowly in church work, and wouldoften avoid early mass that they might catch amess of trout or violate the game law by killino- aDakotah in May. Father Marquette discovered the Upper Missis-sippi not far from a large piece of suburban prop-erty owned by the author, north of Minneapolis. OTHER DISCOVERIES—WET AND DRY. 31 The ground has not been disturbed since dis-covered by Father Marquette. The English also discovered America from timeto time, the Cabots finding Labrador while en-deavoring to go to Asia via the North, and Fro-bisher discovered Baffin Bay in 1576 while on alike mission. The Spanish discovered the watermostly, and England the ice belonging to NorthAmerica. Sir Francis Drake also discovered the PacificOcean, and afterward sailed an English ship onits waters, discovering Oregon.
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