The Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the Discovery by the Northmen in the Tenth Century to the Present Time, Volumes 1-2B. Walker, 1844 - United States |
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... command . Returning to Leif's booths , they passed the winter there , and the following spring went back to Greenland . The keel - cape , in the opinion of the editor of the Antiquitates Americana , is Cape Cod ; and the promontory ...
... command . Returning to Leif's booths , they passed the winter there , and the following spring went back to Greenland . The keel - cape , in the opinion of the editor of the Antiquitates Americana , is Cape Cod ; and the promontory ...
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... commands . The natives , who , at their first landing , had fled to the woods , finding that there was no attempt to pursue or molest 40 DISCOVERY OF CUBA . them , gradually recovered from. The Landing of Columbus . Cartier takes ...
... commands . The natives , who , at their first landing , had fled to the woods , finding that there was no attempt to pursue or molest 40 DISCOVERY OF CUBA . them , gradually recovered from. The Landing of Columbus . Cartier takes ...
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... command to Gaspar Cortereal , who sailed from Lisbon in the year 1500 , and steering north - west from the Azores , discovered and explored the coast of Labrador , which is said to have received its name from the circumstance of his ...
... command to Gaspar Cortereal , who sailed from Lisbon in the year 1500 , and steering north - west from the Azores , discovered and explored the coast of Labrador , which is said to have received its name from the circumstance of his ...
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... command in Peru , imagined that , in a higher station , he might expect the same success and a more brilliant fame . He accordingly applied for and easily obtained from the emperor , the government of Charles V. Florida , ambition ...
... command in Peru , imagined that , in a higher station , he might expect the same success and a more brilliant fame . He accordingly applied for and easily obtained from the emperor , the government of Charles V. Florida , ambition ...
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... command of Luis de Moscoso , endeavoured to penetrate through the savannahs and marshes of Louisiana , to Mexico . But they were compelled by insur- mountable difficulties , to return once more to the Mississippi ; where they succeeded ...
... command of Luis de Moscoso , endeavoured to penetrate through the savannahs and marshes of Louisiana , to Mexico . But they were compelled by insur- mountable difficulties , to return once more to the Mississippi ; where they succeeded ...
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