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On this, therefore, was finally lashed a great load of provisions, frozen walrus meat for dog food, sleeping bags, the three all-important cooking utensils of the wilderness kettle, fry-pan, and teapot an axe, and Cabot's bag of specimens.
That La Cosa based the northern part of his map upon Cabot's discoveries is demonstrated by the English flags marked along the coast and the legend "Mar descubierto por Ingleses," because no English but the Cabot expeditions had been there; and what is evidently intended for Cape Race is called "Cavo de Ynglaterra."
At sight of the ill-favoured young Indian all of Cabot's former resentment flamed up, and springing to his feet he dashed from the tent, determined to give Arsenic the thrashing he deserved.
It was the Portuguese Vasco da Gama who in the very year of John Cabot's second voyage found the great sea route to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Two years later the Cortereals, also Portuguese, began exploring the coasts of America as far northwest as Labrador.
And Dan Higgins is a good enough boy, too. But he ain't your kind." "My kind! Uncle Shad, what in the world have I got to do with Dan Higgins and coffins and all the rest of it?" "Nothin', nothin' at all. That's what I'm tryin' to tell you if you'll give me a chance. Mary-'Gusta, your Uncle Zoeth and I have decided that you must go to school up to Boston, at the Misses Cabot's school there.
I do wonder who he is, where he came from, what has happened to him, where he gets his electricity, and a thousand other things. I wish he would wake up, and I wish he could talk." Cabot's curiosity concerning the weird music that had drawn him to that place had been partially satisfied by the discovery of a violin on the floor beside the sick man's bed.
Cabot came, and Polly thought she should go wild to have her stand outside there and beg and insist that Polly should come down to them all. "I don't want any dinner," said Polly over and over. "I just must be alone a little while," and at last she spoke quickly to Mrs. Cabot's persistent pleadings, "Have the goodness, Mrs. Cabot, not to call me again."
For by right of Cabot's voyages they claimed all America. from Florida to Newfoundland, which, says a writer in the time of Queen Elizabeth, "they bought and annexed unto the crowne of England." The English, therefore, looked upon the French as interlopers and usurpers. The French, however, paid little attention to the English claims.
"Um-hm," mused Shadrach, "but but she'd have to live somewheres, and I for one would want to be mighty particular what sort of a place she lived at." "Naturally. Well, I have thought of that, too, and here is suggestion number three: I have a cousin a cousin of my first wife's who lives on Pinckney Street, which is not far from the Misses Cabot's school. This cousin Mrs.
She had hardly gained the summit when she uttered a cry that attracted Cabot's attention and caused him to hasten in her direction. In a few moments he met her running breathlessly down the hill. "What is it?" he asked. "Are you hurt?" "A warship coming up the coast," she panted. "I saw it plainly, and we must get back with the news as quick as we can."
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