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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
nobles or priests; no human sacrifices; no cruel rites Chap. II.} 1541. of superstition; no serfs or class of laborers or slaves; they were The Spaniards came once upon a prairie that was broken Chap. II.} 1541. neither by rocks, nor hills, nor trees, nor shrubs, nor any thing wh of October, 1541, reported to Charles the Fifth, that Chap. II.} 1541. poor as were the villages on the Del Norte, nothing better had been no mines of Peru were discovered; no ornaments of gold Chap. II.} 1541. adorned the rude savages; their wealth was the harvest of corn, and resolute onset on this night or the next, the Spaniards Chap. II.} 1541. would have been unable to resist. But in a respite of a week, forgks of the river, painted and gayly decorated with great Chap. II.} 1541. plumes of white feathers, the warriors standing in rows with bow anof his ramble in this direction. The mountains offered Chap. II.} 1541. neither gems nor gold; and the disappointed adventurers marched to
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
roublesome voyage of more than two months, before they reached a harbor in Newfoundland. There the disheartened adventurers wasted away, from famine and misery. In the extremity of their distress, a French ship arrived, well furnished with vittails: of this they obtained possession by a stroke of policie, and set sail for England. The French, following in the English ship, complained of the exchange, upon which Henry VIII., of his own private purse, made them full and royal recompense. In 1541, the fisheries of Newland were favored by an act of parliament, the first which refers to America. The accession of Edward, in 1547, and the consequent ascendency of Protestantism, marks the era when England began to foreshadow her maritime superiority. In the first year of his reign the council advanced a hundred pounds for Cabot, a pilot, to come out of Hispain to serve and inhabit in England. In the next year, the fisheries of Newfoundland, which had suffered from exactions by the off