A Book of American ExplorersHigginson, Thomas Wentworth
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A Book of American Explorers
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
America -- Discovery and exploration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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FOOTNOTES.
1 – i.e., his sailors asked.
2 – Custom.
3 – Or “made ready,” as we say a ship is bound for Liverpool.
4 – Disappeared below the horizon.
5 – Mountains. This has been supposed to be Cape Cod.
6 – i.e., sailed away from the land.
7 – Possibly Nova Scotia.
8 – Possibly Newfoundland.
9 – Cape, or _nose_, of land.
10 – Went.
11 – Great.
12 – Perhaps Labrador, where flat stones abound, or Newfoundland.
13 – Form.
14 – Perhaps Nova Scotia.
15 – Perhaps honey-dew, a sweet substance left on grass by an
insect called _aphis_.
16 – Cape.
17 – i.e., was left aground.
18 – Cots used to sleep in, and made of skin.
19 – Surveyed.
20 – Large.
21 – German.
22 – Foster-father, or perhaps foster-brother.
23 – Mountains.
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