2. Draw a map in which you will indicate De Soto's route.
3. Tell in your own words the story of this wretched march through the forests.
4. Make a mental picture of De Soto's meeting with the Indian princess; of De Soto and his body-guard in Mavilla; of the burial of De Soto's body by night.
5. What did De Soto accomplish? When?
Sir Walter Raleigh.
CHAPTER III
Sir Walter
Raleigh and the
First English
Attempts to Colonize
America
[1552-1618]
Only five years after Columbus made his discoveries in the West India Islands, John Cabot sailed from England in search of a short northwest passage to Asia. Directing his course across the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, he landed somewhere on the eastern coast of North America, perhaps on the shores of Labrador. His son sailed in the following year along the coast from Nova Scotia down as far as North Carolina. By reason of these discoveries and explorations, England laid claim to North America.