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Days of the Discoverers

Chapter 73: Transcriber's Notes
By Louise Lamprey
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A sequence of illustrated historical narratives and vignettes recounts voyages by northern seafarers, medieval navigators, and later ocean-crossing explorers, focusing on shipboard life and the challenges of long-distance navigation. Episodes combine dramatized scenes, legends, and documentary-style notes to describe coastal landings, trade, cultural encounters, and attempts at settlement, including mysterious or failed ventures. The collection emphasizes vivid material detail and human response to hardship, wonder, and conflict while avoiding polemics. Short poems and explanatory notes punctuate the chapters, and illustrations accompany the mix of storytelling and informational sketches.

The account of Captain John Smith's adventures among the Turks was at one time considered apocryphal, but good authorities now see no reason to regard his narrative of his own career as in any way inaccurate. The perils and strange chances which an adventurous man encountered in such times often seem almost incredible in a more peaceful age, but there is really no more reason to doubt them than to discredit authentic accounts of men like Daniel Boone, Francis Drake, or other men of similar disposition.

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THE DISCOVERERS

Through tangled mysteries of old romance Knights, Latin, Celt or Saxon, pass a-dream, Seeking the minarets of magic towers Through the witched woods that gleam.
Stately in trappings thick with gold and gems, Stern-browed and stubborn-eyed, they wandered forth, As children credulous, as strong men brave, To South, and West, and North.
Our venturous pilots map the windy skies; To serve our pleasure, huger galleons wait. Aflame with more than magic lights, our walls Guard the Manhattan Gate!
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Among the sources of information from which the historical material of this book are drawn are the following works:

  • Voyages, Hakluyt
  • The Discovery of America. John Fiske
  • Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America. John Fiske
  • The Conquest of Mexico. Prescott
  • Two Voyages in New England. J. Josselyn
  • Adventures and Conquests of Magellan. George Makepeace Towle
  • Narrative and Critical History of America. (Edited by Justin Winsor)
  • The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote. Warner
  • The Romance of Colonization. G. Barnett Smith
  • Life of Columbus. Washington Irving
  • The Voyage of the Vega. Nordenskiold
  • The Land of the Midnight Sun. Du Chaillu
  • The Court of France. Lady Jackson
  • Sailors' Narratives of New England Voyages. (Edited by George Parker Winship)
  • Indian Basketry. George Wharton James
  • The Iroquois Book of Rites. Hale
  • Drake. Alfred Noyes (poem)
  • Crusaders of New France. William Bennett Munro
  • Elizabethan Sea-dogs. William Wood
  • Young Folks' Book of American Explorers. Higginson
  • Paradise Found. William F. Warren
  • Ferdinand and Isabella. Prescott
  • Pioneers of France in the New World. Parkman
  • Sir Francis Drake. Julian Corbett
  • Henry the Navigator. Men of Action Series

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Transcriber's Notes

PageProblemChange/Comment
8"Helene""Helêne" to match rest of text
26same awesome awe
55Inserted a comma after 'jeweled trappings'.
85superfluous comma in "Catherine, became" removed
85valaublevaluable
90good cheap and wholesome.As in image
108comradcomrade
133'And the White Gods come'Line indented to match other stanzas.
150sqadronsquadron
162religonreligion
178exicitementexcitement
194slavesslavers
194Cabeca'Cabeça' as elsewhere
230'like spent bullets"'like spent bullets.'
232two month'sAs in image
239exploratioinsexplorations
247AmadasArmadas
300Inserted '(' before 'Edited by Justin Winsor)'

The following variant spellings in the text have been left unmodified:

  1. "Bacalao" and "Baccalao"
  2. "Mappe-Mondo" and "Mappe-Monde"
  3. "'T is" and "'Tis"

The following variant hyphenations in the text have been left unmodified:

  1. "arrow-heads" and "arrowheads"
  2. "birch-bark" and "birchbark"
  3. "cross-bow" and "crossbow-bolts"
  4. "court-yards" and "courtyards"
  5. "deer-skin" and "deerskin"
  6. "frost-work" and "frostwork"
  7. "Grand-Master" and "Grand Master"
  8. "ink-horn" and "inkhorn"
  9. "kin-folk" and "kinfolk"
  10. "sea-weed" and "seaweed"
  11. "shell-fish" and "shellfish"
  12. "ship-worm" and "shipworms"