Identifier: dawnofamericanhi00nida (find matches)
Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ds that they hungthem by a cord into the sea for several days to soften themso that they could be eaten. Starvation and foul foodbrought on that dreaded disease of scurvy, and scores ofpoor sailors died, while many others were too sick and weakto move about. But the sea was calm, and they made goodspeed, or they would all certainly have died in mid-ocean.Some of the sailors began to think that perhaps the worldwas not round after all, and that they were saiHng to cer-tain death with no shore before them. But amid thisawful suffering and misery, Magellan did not flinch. Thesailors would have mutinied many times, but what couldthey do? If they deserted or killed Magellan, where couldthey go ? To turn back now meant death before land couldbe reached. So they sailed on, no one knew where. Land Ahead. —At last, with great joy, they came uponan island inhabited by savages, where they found plentyof fruit, fresh vegetables, and meat. It was one of the 304 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE
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RACE TO THE INDIES 305 Ladrone Islands. A few weeks later they discovered agroup of large islands, which they called Philippines afterPhiKp II of Spain. Asia had been reached! The Death of Magellan. — Here they met traders fromChina and the Spice Islands. Now Magellan knew fora certainty that the world was round, and he had wonglory and fame. While trying to spread Christianityupon these islands, the great navigator was killed; buthis fleet reached the Spice Islands. One of his ships sailedthrough the stormy Indian Ocean, passed the Cape of GoodHope, crept slowly up the west coast of Africa, crossed theequator, and on September 6, sailed into a home port. Home at Last. — Of the two hundred and eighty boldsailors who set out to sail around the world, only eighteenhaggard, suffering men had Kved to reach home again. Itwas the greatest voyage ever undertaken, and its bold heromust be given the title of the Prince of Navigators. Henot only proved the world to be round, but he showedcl

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