Identifier: newschoolhistory00holm_0 (find matches)
Title: New school history of the United States
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Holmes, George Frederick, 1820-1897
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Publisher: New York, University publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The number reported to the Commissioners of Indian Affairs in i58i was 246,417,exclusive of Alaska. + St. Brandans Isle v\-as that appearance of clouds or haze on the horizon, re-sembling land, which is now familiar to seamen as Cape Fly-Away. It often de-ceived the navigators of the Atlantic, who mistook it for a nevv^ country in the West,which they pursued, but could not reach, as it retained its distance or vanished fromthem. X These Scandinavian discoveries are now extensively beheved. It has been sup-posed that the communication with Greenland v/as interrupted by a great change ofclimate and by vast icebergs, about 1350. l6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. it still had many vessels at sea. It still traded with the Eastand with the West. It still waged w^ar with the Sultans ofConstantinople, with the Caliphs of Egypt, and with the pirateswho plundered the shores of Italy, and captured Christiansto sell them as slaves to the Turks.20. In this city a boy was born, about the year 14403
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COLUMBUS. who lived to do greater things than had ever been achieved inhis native State in the days of its highest renown.^ He wasnamed Christopher Columbus. He was brought up in * The Genoese are credited with an early attempt to discover land beyond theAtlantic ; but the authority for the statement is not g-iven. * The Genoese * * made an effort in the year 1291 to obtain that discovery of a newworld westward which their countr^^man Columbus effected two centuries later. * *They sent out two galleys for this important purpose, under Theodosius Doria andUgolin Vivaldo, who were directed to sail far westward, without the Straits of Gib-raltar, in quest of new countries; but they were never heard of more. DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, 17 poverty ; in the midst of political strife and change and ad-venture. While very young he became a sailor, and was en-gaged in the naval warfare with the corsairs of Barbary, andwith the Ottoman Turks, who had recently conquered Con-stantinople, and subdued th

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