Author : Benjamin Franklin Decosta
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230276885
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (768 download)
Book Synopsis The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, by the Northmen; with Translations from the Icelandic Sagas by : Benjamin Franklin Decosta
Download or read book The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, by the Northmen; with Translations from the Icelandic Sagas written by Benjamin Franklin Decosta and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...preceded the Icelanders in America, possibly Ireland the Great. ' This cape was not Point Gilbert, but the terminus of Cape Cod, known as "Race Point," a dangerous place for navigation. It would seem that this was the locality referred to, for the reason that the next place mentioned is the shore near Plymouth, which is readily seen from the end of Cape Cod in a clear day. Here there is a hiatus in the narrative. It was the vicinity of Race Point that they called " Kialarness," vor Keel Cape. From Cape Cod it would seem they crossed to Plymouth, whose heights were in view of the cape in clear weather, and then worked along eastward, though the passage across the mouth of Cape Cod Bay is not mentioned, reaching the mouth of Boston Harbor, where Thorvald said, "Here met bad weather, and drove upon the land and broke the keel, and remained there a long time to repair the vessel. Thorvald said to his companions: "We will stick up the keel here upon the ness, and call the place Kialarness;" which they did. Then they sailed away eastward along the country, entering the mouths of the bays, to a point of land which was everywhere covered with woods. They moored the vessel to the land, laid out gangways to the shore, and Thorvald, with all his ship's company, landed. He said, " Here it is so beautiful, and I would willingly set up my abode here." ' They afterward went on board, and saw three specks upon the sand within the point, and went to them and found there were three skin boats with three men under each boat. They divided their men and took all of them prisoners, except one man, who escaped with his boat. They killed eight of them, and then went to the point and looked about them. "Within this bay they saw several eminences, which they took...