Larry Wilson
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Section fourteen of Great Epochs in American History Volume one.
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Great Epochs in American History Volume one Voyages of Discovery and Early Exploration one thousand AD to sixteen eighty two by Francis Whiting Halsey.
Section fourteen
The Discovery of Florida by Pont de Leon fifteen twelve Parkman's account.
Toward the close of the fifteenth century, Spain achieved her final triumph over the infidels of Granada, and made her name glorious through all generations by the discovery of America.
The religious zeal and romantic daring which a long course of Moorish wars had called forth was
were now exalted to redoubled fervor.
Every ship from the New World came freighted with marvels which put the fictions of chivalry to shame.
And to the Spaniard of that day?
America was a region of wonder and mystery, of vague and magnificent promise.
Thither adventures hastened.
Thirsting for glory and for gold.
Often mingling the enthusiasm of the crusader and the valor of the knight errant with the bigotry of inquisitors and the rapacity of pirates, they roamed over land and sea.
They climbed unknown mountains.
Surveyed unknown oceans, pierced the sultry intricacies of tropical forests, while from year to year and from day to day new wonders were unfolded.
New islands and archipelagos, new regions of gold and pearl.
and barbaric empires of more than oriental wealth.
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