Historical Lectures and Essays

Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley
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Title: Historical Lectures and Essays
Author: Charles Kingsley Release Date: May 12, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1360]
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HISTORICAL LECTURES AND ESSAYS by Charles Kingsley
Contents: The First Discovery of America Cyrus, Servant of the Lord Ancient Civilisation Rondelet Vesalius
Paracelsus Buchanan
THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Let me begin this lecture {1} with a scene in the North Atlantic 863 years since. “Bjarne Grimolfson was blown with his ship into the Irish Ocean; and there came worms and the ship began to sink under them. They had a boat which they had payed with seals’ blubber, for that the sea-worms will not hurt. But when they got into the boat they saw that it would not hold them all. Then said Bjarne, ‘As the boat will only hold the half of us, my advice is that we should draw lots who shall go in her; for that will not be unworthy of our manhood.’ This advice ...