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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed a portion of the expense. Theobject of this voyage was to trade with thenatives, and to ascertain if the country wassuited to colonization. The expedition sailedfrom Bristol in May, 1498, and was com-manded by Sebastian Cabot.who reached theLabrador coast about four hundred milesnorth of the point discovered by his father.He found the country cold and barren,though it was but the beginning of the sum-mer, and sailed southward, *The coast to 43 DISCOVERY OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT 44 uhich he was now borne was unobstructedby frost. He saw there stags larger thanthose of England, and bears that plungedinto the water to take fish with their claws.The fish swarmed innumerably in such shoalsthey seemed to affect even the speed of bis * Continuing his voyage, according to theline of the shore, he found the natives olthose regions clad in skins of beasts, bntthey were not without the faculty of reason,and in many places were acquainted with theuse of copper. In the early part of Hi.«- ..^^
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-SEBASTIAN CABOT. syessels, so that he gave to the country thename of Bacallaos, which still linger, on theeast side of Newfoundland, and has passedinto the language of the Germans and thetalians, as well as the Portuguese and^^panish, to designate the cod. voyage he had been so far to the north thatin the month of July the light of day wasalmost continuous ; before he turned home-wards, in the late autumn, he believed hehad attained the latitude of the Straits ^*Gibraltar and the longitude of Cuba.* O?, * Bancroft ENGLISH AND FRENCH DISCOVERIES. 4^ Ills homeward voyage he noticed the GulfStream. This was the last voyage from Englandmade by Sebastian Cabot. On the death ofHenry VII., he took service with Ferdinandof Spain, and under him and his grandson,Charles V., he made many voyages, and wasfor nearly sixty years the foremost man inEurope in maritime enterprises. A Renowned Explorer, He explored the eastern coast of SouthAmerica, and in his efforts to find the north-west pas

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