The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-19
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, JUNE 10, 1875.

Other attempts followed in the San,
direction down 10 the reign of Her r;
| VII. the discovery of America by Co
lumbus, and the daring explorations
made by that inspireD Portuguese
Vesco de CANA, having quickened the
pulse of every mariner in the ole
world and sent abroad a whole fleet G.
ships in all directions 10 quest new
lands and Unknown oceans. De CANA
after accurately describing t',e passage
to India round the Cape of Good Hope
met Sebastian Cabot o, e day in Lisbar
aud tainted him with his inactivity ant
want Of enterprise. every well" re-
| piled Cabot, "your passage to the
northeast was a long one, mine to the
northwest shall be short one, England
| shall outdo Portugal"
Cabot was also Venetian, whose
| father resided in Bristol, and who seems
to have had the first clearly defined
| idea OF an open sea about the pole
| The plan of the son was soon matured
| 1t was to steer to the north until ar
ocean was found which could be sailed
across direct to the Gland of Cathay
that mysterious country of vast and
unknown treasures. Understanding,
he said, in his petition to the king fol
help, "that by reason of the sphere, il
shall sail by the northwest, will. by
a shorter track, come to India. and
device, because all men think it thing
more divine than human to sail by the
west into the east, where spices dc
grow"
The king promptly responded by Of
dering two caravels to be prepared with
all things necessary for so long a voy
age, and in the summer of 1896, the ex-
petition sailed. It found not the coast
that the elder Cabot had SO accurately
laid down in his conversations with his
son, and after many hardships and
much serious stress of weather, it made
Newfoundland, where the crews landed,
committed many excesses, and finally
turned back towards the south, reaching
Florida and passing winter there.
Four years later, or in the year 1900,
Casper Corterea], a sailor of high birth
at the court of King Emmanuel, of
Portugal, sailed from Lisbon, touched
at the Azores. pursued his course in a
narthwesterly direction, and came at
last to the coast of Labrador, to which he
gave the name of Terre Verde. He did
not go further, resting content to ex-
plore the country and bring back with
him large cargo of the natives, which
was sold into slavery soon after its ar
rival. The next year he started again
70 the north, penetrated into what is
now known as Hudson's Strait, en-
spuntered a terrible storm, and was
ever heard of more.
In 1924, the year before the disastrous
bttle of Pavia, France fitted out four
Ships for an Arctic voyage, and gave the
coRmand of the expedition to a Floren
tina named Giovanni Verazzano, who
was a navigator of great energy and
ability, and one in every way suited to
the trust. He coasted along the whole of
what Is now the United States, as was
also the larger part of British America /;
but whn he returned and found Francis
I. prisoner, the French army destroy
ed, and his adopted country half ruined,
he quit the navy for the land, and was
killed in one of the many battles of the
period.
1t was ten years after this voyage be-
fore France interested herself in another
expedition. Jacques Cartier COM
manded this one, and he circumnavi
gated newfoundland, discovered the Isle
of ASSUMPTION, explored the gulf OF
st. Lawrenee and founded the present
city of Montreal. Afterwards he fell
into disgrace and was never trusted with
A Henry wi VII. was succeeded by Henry
VIII, and he set about at once to
renew the polar researches left un-
completed BY Sebastian Cabot. Two
expeditions we're organized. Robert
Thorne, a merchant of Bristol under
took one. nd Londoner, named
Master Hore, the other. Thorne got
two ships fron the king, reached New
foundland viii one of them, and got
separated fron the other, which was
never seen agin, nor any of its crew.
Hore receivd large ship, and crew
of one hundDd and thirty persons,
thirty of whon were gentlemen "who
belonged to tn Inns of Court" Reach
ing also newfoundland, they got into
such fearful diaress that they began to
kill and eat nsanother.
The record d their cannibalism was
frightful. Hon began it by knocking
cutting his tlmat and drinking his
warm blood froa the still living body.
Between twenty and twenty were
devoured in thi way when a French
ship arrived onb to be seized by the
ravenous EngliA. and plundered of
everything in tbsshape of provisions.
Complaining to Henry of their treat
ment. he paid tim we'll for their losses
but refused to push the cannibals for
their monstrous apravity.
Sebastian CAbd an old man now,
returned to Englnd, as he said, to die.
They would not b him die, however.
He was made grad pilot of the realm,
and ordered to seA out competent men
in search OF the Drth pole. He Sc
lected Sir Hugh @lougbby and Rich
ard Chancellor for he work, giving each
a good stout ship I'd competent crew.
At the North Capshe two ships parted
company never to meet again. Will
loughby. after hrrible suffering,
reached Nova Zembla, and pushed on
into the north despae every prayer or
protest his crew cld offer. OFF the
coast of Russian Island the ice caught
his vessel and crushsd it as an eggshell,
every soul on bosd perishing miser-
ably. Wilioughbys body was found
two years afterwarda by some Russian
fishermen, frozen ahard as iron, and
in perfe ct state ofpreservasion.
| Chancellor was nme fortunate, and
held resoiuteiy on = way to the White
sea, where, instead Of making a land
| Au6 ~ IA'So0h6o', Auo WAS duVl6ou W
do, a storm overtock him and he, to-
gether with his who'll crew, went down
while the storm wm at its worst. 1t
may be said that The first period of
artic explorations eaded with the death
of Henry the Eighth. The pecoud
period commenced With Queen Eliza
beth, and was inaugmated by a series
of brilliant exploits under the daring
and skillful leader ship of the renowned
Sir Martin Frobishsr.
Sheridan's Brlles Trosseau.
The brides dress for the interesting
ceremony is of soft white, Persian
silk, thick and l1stroas, with simmer
reflection of a harvea moon on a sleep
ing lake 1t will be made up in man.
ner BETTING the youth and beauty of
the bride, and not s9ap of lace, how
ever costly. will adom it's silky white