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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re where perpetual summer reigned, and a cultured and happy race livedin great comfort and order ; others peopled the Arctic lands with races of savages, half menand half beasts, and with various terrible monsters. 344 DUTCH EXPEDITIONS TO NORTH AMERICA. (Chap. XIIL rest, reached and explored Nova Zembla; while the others sailed intothe straits called the Waigats. They all returned before the winter.Linschoten, the geographer, who had accompanied one of the ships,was still sanguine that the northeast passage to India was possible ;the hopes of the rest were somewhat dampened. Nevertheless theenterprise was tried a second and a third time : the second expedi-tion, in the summer and autumn of 1565, proceeded by way of theWaigats, but was an utter failure, returning without result of anykind; while the third, in 1596, under Barentz, Heemskerk, and Vander Kyp, penetrated beyondthe eightieth parallel, and dis-covered and landed upon Spitz-bergen. Barentz and Heems-kerk, separating from the
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Barentz at Nova Zembla. other vessel, rounded Nova Zembla, and became imprisoned by theice near Ice Havenga Bay, to which Barentz had given the name.They were kept here, enduring the greatest suffering, until the nextyear ; and it was in endeavoring to escape from their imprisonment,that Barentz finally yielded to the rigor of the climate and to priva-tion, dying in his boat in June, 1597. His companions finally effectedtheir return ; but with this last failure much of the enthusiasm abouta northeastern passage died away. These attempts show how fully prepared the Netherlanders hadbecome, when their independence was finally acknowledged, and theircommercial prosperity had reached so great a height, to turn theirattention to a new region of the earth. The old pathways to Indiawere all their own ; they had thus far found the way effectuallybarred to the northeast ; and, commercially at least, they might 1607.) HENRY HUDSON. 345 naturally look for new worlds to conquer. The English voyag

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