DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION,
1000-1600
Books for Study and Reading
References.--Parkman's Pioneers of France (edition of 1887 or a later edition); Irving's Columbus (abridged edition).
Home Readings.--Higginson's Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic; Mackie's With the Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Columbus); Lummis's Spanish Pioneers; King's De Soto in the Land of Florida; Wright's Children's Stories in American History; Barnes's Drake and his Yeomen.
CHAPTER I
THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Leif Ericson.
1. Leif Ericson discovers America, 1000.--In our early childhood many of us learned to repeat the lines:--
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In fourteen hundred, ninety-two.