Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . making im-portant discoveries. His first voyage did not amount to much, for about theonly things he brought back were a few black stones, which he gave to hiswife as keepsakes. She threw them in the fire, but they turned out to be course Fro-bish-er at once made up his mind that he only had to return inorder to find great wealth. He set sail with fifteen ships, which returnedfilled with ore, but, unfortunately, there was no gold in the ore, so their jour-ney was
Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . making im-portant discoveries. His first voyage did not amount to much, for about theonly things he brought back were a few black stones, which he gave to hiswife as keepsakes. She threw them in the fire, but they turned out to be course Fro-bish-er at once made up his mind that he only had to return inorder to find great wealth. He set sail with fifteen ships, which returnedfilled with ore, but, unfortunately, there was no gold in the ore, so their jour-ney was a failure. In 1583 Sir Humph-rey Gil-bert, a brave and gallant gentleman, with afleet of five ships and a company of two hundred and sixty men, left settled near the mouth of the St. Johns River, in New Found-land, andattempted to form a colony. But discouraged at the failure to find wealth manyof Sir Humph-reys men deserted, and some of them conspired to seize the ves-sels. Finally, Sir Humph-rey was obliged to return to Eng-land, but on his•w&y the vessel foundered and all on board were drowned. :1. AN IN-DIAN CAMP
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