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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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The South Sea. 1513.) DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC. 145 lay the blue ocean, sparkling and glorious in the sunlight, stretchingas far as the eye could reach. North, South, West, to where Discovery ofsky and water seemed to meet. It was for this that all the JJiea^n.^septgreat navigators of the world had been seeking for nearly ^^^^•twenty years, and when the sight of it broke upon Yasco Nunez he fellprone upon the ground. Raising himself presently upon his knees, hegave thanks to God that it had pleased his diuine maiestie to reseruevnto that day the victorie and prayse of so great a thing vnto him.An ecstacy of delight, of triumph and devotion possessed him. Withone hand he beckoned his followers to come to him ; with the otherhe pointed wildly seaward, shewing them the great maine sea here-tofore vnknowne to the inhabitants of Europe, Aphrike, and Asia.
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First Embarkation on the South Sea. Again he fell upon his knees, and to his prayers, desiring AlmightyGod and the blessed Virgin to fauor his beginnings, and to give himgood successe to subdue those landes, to the glory of his holy name,and increase of his holy religion. His companions joined him and praysed God with loude vo3^ces for ioy, for he *■ exhorted them tolyft up their hearts and beholde the lande euen now vnder their feete,and the sea before their eyes which shoulde bee vnto them a full andiust rewarde of their great laboures and trauayles now ouerpassed.He ordered heaps of stone to be piled up in token that he took pos-session of the country for his sovereign, and the name of Ferdinand VOL. I. 10 146 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. (Chap. VII. of Castile lie carved upon many trees as he went down the Pacificslope. The men, marshalled in battle array, were ordered by this piouscaptain to assail the natives and to esteeme them no better thandogges meate, as they sho

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