Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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-ble to this nation and honourable to this our land; an intention 1 Hakluyt, vol. iii... p. 129. 228 ENGLISH ATTEMPTS AT SETTLEMENT. (Chap. X. wliich tlie nobility were ready to help and further. Even the namesof the ships indicate the sanguine hopes of the expedition, for theywere called the Bona Esperanza^ the Edward (for the king) Bona-venture^ and the Bona Confidentia. They were well built and wellprovided ; and one of them, says Clement Adams,^ was made stanchand fir me by an excellent invention: they covered a piece of thekeel of the ship with thin sheets of lead to protect it from theworms, — the first tune apparently that sheathing was used in Eng-land. On the 20th of May the fleet dropped down to Greenwich. The court was at that place, and the courtiers came running out ure o/wii- to sce the vessels ; the privy council looked out from the ^^° ^ windows and from the tops of the towers ; the people crowded down to the shore ; upon the ships the sailors clustered like bees in
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Willoughbys Ships in Arctic Seas. the tops, upon the yards and shrouds, and while hills and valleys rever-berated with salute after salute, these mariners all apparelled inwatchet or skie-coloured cloth, .... shouted in such sort thatthe skie rang againe with the noyses thereof. It was a gala-day onthe Thames, a very triumph in all respects to the beholders. In the north seas the ships, not many days after, parted companyin a storm. Two of them kept together, and were found two yearslater by some Russian fishermen in a Lapland harbor. They werethe Bo7ia Esperanza and the Bona Confidentia. In the cabin of theEsperanza sat the body of Sir Hugh Willoughby, a pen between his 1 See his narrative in Hakluyt, vol. i., p. 243, et seq. 1570.) SIR HUMPHREY GILBERTS DISCOURSE. 229 frozen fingers, his journal open on tlie table before him. Scatteredabout both ships lay the bodies of the frozen crews ; every man onboard had perished with the cold. When afterward an attempt wasmade to take the ship

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