, 1874-02-25
CHARLES KINGSLEY,
Ills Second Lecture In This Country,
The First Discovery: Of America
A Tremendous Week" in History,

wondered what lo would toll US about
1.-THE FIRST DISCOVERY or AmEn1oA;"
and this afternoon moat aattoring audience
listened to him, at horticultural Hall.
Mr.. Kingaloy's manner, without being that OF
"popular" 1octuror, u ono TINT will not d.
croaso bis popularity At first It ia little dff-
cnt to cnoh oyory word; but wien onoc socus-
toned to tho Rlight inclination to intono, nt,d
tho decidedly English emphasis aud pronuncla-
ton, thoro Is no difficulty wllatovcr.
llo began hia lecture BY repeating ono of tho
old Norao eagas. describing the loas Of tho ship
commnndcdby
nrAnNE ontmoIrsoN,
and which adverse winds drove into tho 1rlsh
Ocean, 803 ycrra ago. Whom tho Captain found
his good ship sinking undor him. he mud his GROW
drow outs to SEQ who should be saved by the
boat, and who should sink with tle ship
D]nrno drew one Of tho living slips but, mpor~
tuned by another Icolandor, ho gayc him Lin
p'ace In the lifc-boat and stayed by his ship,
"IhiH story, said Mr.. Kingsley, mny serve aa
d text for my whole lecture. It giyos glImpeo
Of tho nobleness that underlay the grim aud
often cruol nature OF tho Noraeman. It belong-
cd, too, to the culninating opooE, to the b6gio.
hing Of that ora WHOM tho Scandinavian people
Ind their grcat ti,nes,-whon tho old t1orcenstu
of tho worHlliporB OF Thor and Oltn was teu1,,or.
cd by tho faith Of tho White Chris, till tie
very mon WHO had leen tho dostroycrs Of West
ern Europe became it's cEvilizers.
" For AtnericanB 1t should haye snecial in.
terest for D1nrno wnB OH Ills voyage homo from
the shoro Of Now England. They hal found
1ce!and, dreonland Labrador, Nova Scotia, aud
Now England, Which they called Vinland. And
moro. beyond Vinland tho Good t1nre WAS said
to be aaothor lanl-
wuirEstAs's LAND,
or Ireland tho Alicklo, as some called It. Fo1
these Norao tratofs from Limerick had found
to havo loon drownod At Sea- Who Std Gtotb taat ba
neoplo hal made thom Chiefs aud baptized Ari.
What Is oil tliis2 And wlns Is thIs, too, which
tue Esqnimaux children taken in Markland told
tho as,,1 N1orshnen Or land beyond, where whte
poles2 Are those all dreams or some part
OF that great civilization, tho rolica whereof
your antiquarians found in SO many parts of tho
United statcs, .etill in existence sono 600 yoara
ago, and were these old Norao cousins upon tho
very edge Of it. This is all known to the alti-
1uarian; and tho.aots Of the oarly Norsemelf aud
women stand out clear as tho acts Of dramatic
poraonages. Ihoryald dudrida,. the mngni!l-
cont widow; Holgl, and Trimbogi, and tho tor
rible FriSdBa,-all theac folks, Bny, xro no
phautons,
hut REAL1TIEs,-
at least Il can judge Of internal evidence.
Of MytlMs mud Fnlry-land, thoro ia ballad
callod 'Trm tho Fair,-about him and hls
brother, Holdnne tho Strong, aud the Princess
lnjilorg, daughter Of the King Of 1coland,--
lads, III tho Farocy. at tho ond Of tho Inst DELI
tury. Prof. Rape has inserted it in Ills A,sti7-
uttaees ArnettcanG, because it talks OF Vinland
as well-known place; md tho brothers are
cont by the Princess to s1ay American Kings.
III anything moro important than is told by
prot. Itape nnd AIR. Black DO now known to tho
na1nsiquariana Of Massachusetts, lot me entroat
record 1t as my firm opinion that, though somo-
what too much may have boen made, In past
years, Of certain roct-nscriptions on this sida
OF the Atlantic, there Gun 10 no reasonable doubt
TINT our own race landed on, md tried to settle
tho shores Of s*w Eng1snd
SIX tuNDnEp yRAna
| before tho Pilgrim FathcrH Of tic Seventccnth
Conturyi and. but for the fogs aud icoborgs,
| tho rocks aud curronts, OF tho dreary North At
lantic Scandinavian dynasty might hayo been
seated now upon tho Throne Of Mexico autl tho
| knowledge Of AlarAaud, and Viueland, aud
| Whito-mannnlnnd might not have dipd away in
| fow generations, and become but droBide Bngas
| for tho winter nighta.
! "Lot mo slsotch for you once moro tho taale Of
| THAT TREMENDOUS WEEK
| which sottled tile fate Of Britain, and therefore
North Amorica, a,-wllctllor we should bo OIL a par
with the othor civilized nations Of Europe, heirs
| OF Roman civilization, Roman literature, Roman
| Jaw, and, therefore, in due time, Of draok phi
| iosophy anu art: No loss question than this
| hung in the balance during that week in o.
| tober, 10G0.
| Poor old Edward tho Confosaor- holy, weak,
md sad-lay In his new choir Of Westminster,
woaty were at rest. He Ind left no heir. Tie
South English, IN their utter ncod, had choson
| for their King Earl Harold Godwinsson, OF the
an-dominnnt Scandinavian blood,-for his
mqthor was Danish Princess. Thon out Of
Norway, with a mighty host, camo Harold Hard.
| rAauD, King of NOrWnY. and c0uf1uerOf. for th&