The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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Page 23
... became reconciled in a measure to their disappoint- ment . Still , for more than a hundred years after Columbus , most of the explorers spent their efforts not so much in seeking to find out what was in the new country , as in trying to ...
... became reconciled in a measure to their disappoint- ment . Still , for more than a hundred years after Columbus , most of the explorers spent their efforts not so much in seeking to find out what was in the new country , as in trying to ...
Page 32
... became of them does not appear . · It was a subject the stockholders preferred not to talk about . That was the last heard of " Solomon's mines " ; and a few years later we find Frobisher's wife begging help of the government , and ...
... became of them does not appear . · It was a subject the stockholders preferred not to talk about . That was the last heard of " Solomon's mines " ; and a few years later we find Frobisher's wife begging help of the government , and ...
Page 35
... became Sir Walter . 29. Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony ; the New " Root " and the New Weed . In the summer of 1585 Raleigh sent out a hun- 1 See Map on page 35 , and also Map on page 12 . 2 Raleigh ( Raw'le , but usually pronounced Ral'ly ...
... became Sir Walter . 29. Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony ; the New " Root " and the New Weed . In the summer of 1585 Raleigh sent out a hun- 1 See Map on page 35 , and also Map on page 12 . 2 Raleigh ( Raw'le , but usually pronounced Ral'ly ...
Page 36
... became an article of food in the British Islands . But this was not all . The Indians had a weed whose leaves they dried and smoked with great satisfaction . They told the white men of Roanoke that " it would cure being tired . " The ...
... became an article of food in the British Islands . But this was not all . The Indians had a weed whose leaves they dried and smoked with great satisfaction . They told the white men of Roanoke that " it would cure being tired . " The ...
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... became the leader . If an Indian lad met with an accident , and was mortally wounded , he scorned to complain ; he sang his " death - song , " and died like a veteran warrior . The Indians either adopted their captives or tortured them ...
... became the leader . If an Indian lad met with an accident , and was mortally wounded , he scorned to complain ; he sang his " death - song , " and died like a veteran warrior . The Indians either adopted their captives or tortured them ...
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