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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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Cecil Calvert. 490 VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. (Chap. XVIII. The whole number of assembled emigrants, including servants andDeparture of l^borers, was nearly or quite three hundred. On Friday,land^cXny. November 22, 1633, they sailed from Cowes, in the Isle of1633. Wight, in a ship, The Ark, accompanied by a pinnace. The Dove, and, and after committing the principal parts of theship to the protection of God especially, and of His most HolyMother, and St. Ignatius, and all the guardian angels of Maryland,they put to sea, with a gentle east wind blowing.
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Cowes in the Isle of Wight. The voyage was long, for the vessels followed the circuitous south-ern course by the Azores and the West Indies ; and at St.Christophers and Barbadoes they made a considerable sta)^The first part of the passage was full of danger ; a terrible tempest onthe 25th of November, separated the pinnace from the ship, nor didthe smaller vessel reappear till six weeks later, wdien she overtook 77ieArk far on in her course, and the devout emigrants offered up a heartythanksgiving for their reunion with the friends they had long givenup for lost. Fears of pirates haunted them throughout the voyage;they narrowly escaped falling into the hands of a Spanish fleet whichlay along the Cape de Verd islands ; and only the timely discovery ofa plot among the slaves at Barbadoes, prevented their finding thatisland given up to anarchy and massacre, amid which they would have quotations are made from the later and more accurate translation, edited for the MarylandHistorical Socie

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