Identifier: introductiontoam00atki (find matches)
Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ofWest Indian ports. This time he returned to Europe by way of the easterncoast of what is now the United States, being the firstEnglishman to sail the whole length of those shores.In an account of the trip written by one of the voyagerswho accompanied him, a description is given of theIndians of Florida. Among other things he tells howthey tattooed themselves, pricking the flesh with a thornso that it might hold the color better. He describestobacco, too, which he saw for the first time. From this time on Hawkins and his men becamemore and more venturesome. They saw that the heavySpanish ships were not able to overtake their lighter. 314 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY smaller ones whenever a fight arose, nor were the Spanishsoldiers and sailors so bold and ready at attack and de-fense as they themselves. Hawkins even gave directionsfor capturing their ships, which ended with the words: Serve God daily; love one another; preserve yourvictuals; beware of fire; and keep good company.
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Houses of Parliament, London Many another Plymouth sailor set out from the littletown to follow the profitable trade in negroes thatHawkins had begun. Year after year they sailed theseas like pirates, pursuing Spanish galleons laden withtreasure, taking possession of them, putting the captainsand men in irons, and bringing them back, along with THE ELIZABETHAN AGE 315 the ships and treasure, as their prize to England. QueenEHzabeth herself did not discourage this lawlessness andonly laughed when the Spanish ambassador protestedagainst it. Sir Francis Drake. Francis Drake, of whom we havealready spoken in the account of the defeat of the Invin-cible Armada, was a young relative of John Hawkins,and had sailed with him on one of his voyages. What helearned from that hardy captain and other slave traders,combined with his own courage and persistence, madehim the most renowned of English naval adventurers. On one of his trips to the New World he had landedon the Isthmus of Panama and had b

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