. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ^to learn how to steer a ship in the right direction, when outof sight of land. There are no roads in the ocean, and it is not strange thatsailors, at that time, feared to go fai from shore lest theycould not find their way back again. In [>leasaut weather EUROPE AND ITS PEOPLE. 19 LESSON.—Before the fifteenth century, sailors had not learned to usethe compass and feared to go far from land. Silks, gold, spices, anddyes -were brought to Europe from India by they could guess pretty well which way to go, becau
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ^to learn how to steer a ship in the right direction, when outof sight of land. There are no roads in the ocean, and it is not strange thatsailors, at that time, feared to go fai from shore lest theycould not find their way back again. In [>leasaut weather EUROPE AND ITS PEOPLE. 19 LESSON.—Before the fifteenth century, sailors had not learned to usethe compass and feared to go far from land. Silks, gold, spices, anddyes -were brought to Europe from India by they could guess pretty well which way to go, because theycould tell the direction from the sun and the stars, while instormy weather, they were utterly lost if they could not seethe land. But when, in the fifteenth century, the mariners compasshad become known in Europe, with its needle pointing tothe north, sailors learned to find theirway on the trackless ocean without thehelp of sun or stars, and, gaining couragethey began to venture more boldly outon the unknown seas. Six hundred years ago, men were asfond of wealth as are the men of to-day;and the women liked equally well their Mariners Compass,jewels and silks and fine clothing. In those days, India wasknown to all Europe as a rich country from which thesethings came. The fragrant spices, the most beautiful dyes,and the yellow gold, came also from the Eastern lands. For many years, these goods had been biought from theEast by caravans, across the deserts to the Mediterranean sea,and thence sent to Italy, or to other countries i
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