Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ercial reasons that most of the expedi-tions were undertaken. There is no need to tell American boys andgirls anything about the men who discoveredthe different parts of their own country, but itis possible that you will like to hear about oneor two of the persons who inspired those dis-coveries, and especially to know what partpepper had in leading travelers to new andunexplored regions. In the year 1260 there passed throughConstantinople two Venetians, named Maffeoand Niccolo Polo. They were on their way,as a matter of speculation, toward the East,and, by various chances and changes, went 1900. ) HOW PEPPER HELPED TO DISCOVER AMERICA. 413 on until they reached Bokhara in Turkestan,where they felt a long way from home, andthought they had made a great journey. Buthere they fell in with certain envoys on a mis- There is no time to tell of how they foundKublai Khan at a place called Cambaluc (theold name of Peking), just rebuilt by him, orof his beautiful country-seat at Shangtu, north
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EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY MAP OF THE WORLD. This map is a copy of a very beautiful one made inthe early part of the fifteenth century, and now pre-served in the famous library of San Lorenzo, at Florence.When you look at it you will see what a small part of theworld was known in those days, and what curious ideaspeople must have had of the relative positions and sizesof different countries. Notice, for instance, the placeoccupied by India, and see how the land shuts in theIndian Ocean. You must remember that this and all other maps ofthe period were drawn largely from imagination anda slight amount of actual knowledge. But they werefounded on the measurements and speculations of afamous Egyptian philosopher and geographer, calledPtolemy, who lived in the second century, and who leftvery extensive writings. Although in the copies of his works there were no drawings of maps to be found, it iscertain that such drawings were made, and he left mostaccurate directions for future scholars to f

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