Second attempt of Raleigh to colonise Virginia.-Rupture with the natives.-Delay in the supply of necessaries to the colonists.-Misfortunes of Raleigh.-His efforts for the colony.-Bartholomew Gosnold lands at Cape Cod.-Penobscot river discovered.-The voyages of the French.-Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Acadia.-Quebec founded in 1608.-Samuel Champlain.-Henry Hudson’s voyages to the north.-He endeavours to discover a passage to the Pacific.-His sufferings and death Pamphilo de Narvaez’ expedition to Florida.-Ferdinand de Soto lands with 600 men.-Their adventures in search of gold.-Sufferings and death of de Soto.-The Mississippi discovered.-Florida colonised by Huguenots.-The French settlement destroyed by Pedro Melendez.-English discovery.-Willoughby and Richard Chancellor.-Frobisher.-Sir Humphrey Gilbert.-Sir Walter Raleigh.-The colony of Virginia and its fortunes.-Sir Francis Drake reaches Nova Scotia.-Jacques Cartier’s voyages.-Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.-Fernandez de Cordova discovers Yucatan.-Conquest of Mexico by Cortes
America discovered by the Vikings.-Runic pillars of Rask and Finn Magnusen.-Christopher Columbus: his various voyages.-John and Sebastian Cabot.-The Portuguese.-Vasco de Gama and Cortereal.-John Verazzani despatched by Francis I.
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