Explorers in the New world before and after Columbus and the story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay . 4 I i ? NaTIONALE, * S J±Mu fife !SM1£j& Edrisis Arabian Manuscript. Bibuotheque Nationale, Paris. PREDECESSORS OF COLUMBUS 9 kingdom of Dublin, in 852, were peaceful colonists whocame with the desire of furthering their commercial pur-suits, and that a slight research will discover the highposition they held among surrounding nations. However,these same Danes of Dublin must have partaken in a largemeasure of the adventurous character of the Norsemen,since we find that i
Explorers in the New world before and after Columbus and the story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay . 4 I i ? NaTIONALE, * S J±Mu fife !SM1£j& Edrisis Arabian Manuscript. Bibuotheque Nationale, Paris. PREDECESSORS OF COLUMBUS 9 kingdom of Dublin, in 852, were peaceful colonists whocame with the desire of furthering their commercial pur-suits, and that a slight research will discover the highposition they held among surrounding nations. However,these same Danes of Dublin must have partaken in a largemeasure of the adventurous character of the Norsemen,since we find that in 867 they invaded and conqueredNorthumbria and held it in subjection to the King ofDublin for nearly a hundred years. It is said that the Northmen swept the seas and madediscoveries long anterior to the period reached by their his-torical traditions, and that to them the Celts of Ireland owedtheir knowledge of navigation. They it was who first con-structed good sea boats, finding their material in the grandpine forests of Norway. The Tuath na Danan,1 who set-tled in Ireland as early as the Christian era and spoke aGermanic dialect
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