3. Give an account of the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci, and of how this Continent came to be known by his name. 4. What were the services of Balboa, and of Ponce de Leon? CHAPTER IV. 5. Sketch the later discoveries by the Spaniards in America. 6. Tell of the coming of the Portuguese. CHAPTER V. 7. Trace the progress of the French discoverers and explorers on the new Continent. CHAPTER VI. 8. Give an account of the commission, and of the explorations of John and Sebastian Cabot. 9. What work of discovery was attempted by Martin Frobisher, and with what result? 10. Outline the colonization schemes of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh. 11. What change of plan for colonization was adopted by Gosnold, and with what success? CHAPTER VII. 12. Tell of the Royal Patents to the London and Plymouth Companies. 13. Sketch the efforts of the Plymouth Company toward colonization, and the coming of the Puritans. CHAPTER VIII. 14. Give an account of the voyages and final successes of Sir Henry Hudson. 15. On what did the Dutch base their early claim to lands in America? PART III. COLONIAL HISTORY. A. D. 1607-1754. CHAPTER IX. VIRGINIA--THE FIRST CHARTER. [Illustration] [Sidenote: =Colony at Jamestown.=] The first settlers at Jamestown were idle and improvident. Only twelve of those who came in 1607 were common laborers. There were four carpenters in the company, six or eight masons and blacksmiths, and a long list of _gentlemen_. The few married men had left their families in England. 2. The affairs of the colony were badly managed. Captain John Smith, the best man in the colony, was suspected of making a plot to murder the council and to make himself king of Virginia. He was arrested and confined until the end of the voyage. When the colonists reached their destination, the king's instructions were unsealed and the names of the Inferior Council made known. A meeting was held and Edward Wingfield elected first governor. 3. As soon as the settlement was well begun, Smith and Newport, with twenty others, explored James River for forty-five miles. Just below the falls, the explorers found the capital of Powhatan, the Indian king. But the "city" was only a squalid village of twelve wigwams. The monarch received the foreigners with courtesy and showed no dislike at the intrusion. 4. The colonists now began to realize their situation. They were alone in the New World. Winter was approaching. Dreadful diseases broke out, and the colony was brought almost to ruin. At one time only five men were able to go on duty as sentinels, and before the middle of September one half of the colonists died. But the frosts came, and disease was checked. [Sidenote: =Civil Dissensions.=]