Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-08

voyage. TO be celebrated by bis descend
ants again In 1898, we have a choice
report in Tho Voyages Of the Venetian
Brothers, Nicolas and Aptonia Xcnu
Nayigutors, published in Venice. l55S
This narrative cNtravngnnuy praises the
hero Of the voyage. Prince Henry Can
kar, or SnnQuhar. or San Hjnlur. or ~.
Clair. MS yuu may be pleased TO spell
him, who was at that time Lord Of ltos-
lin. Nithsdale, THE capital Of which was
SanquhHrl Caithncss and Sirathcrnc.
The probable cause of this voyage of
Henry's was the wish to rocapture the
Orkncys, the IaroCs and Iceland. with
perhaps n larger slice Of Grunlnnd Ia
part Of which Vinland was supposed TO
bel already these many years In the
violent hands of the descendants of
EynAr. eldest son to Rogcn&nld.
So far as the world Mt large now
knows, nothing Of importance 10 the hu-
man race resulted from these successive
discoveries or this marvellous voyage,
except perhaps the establishing OF the ex-
act fact thnt a mighty continent lay to
the west where. securely locked, lay nm
told treasure. For long the maps aud
charts made by Henry aud his mariners
remained family possessions, this family
which had grasped aud held most Of the
important lands and thrones Of the north
and west. Ridpath beautifully SAYS
IAN event is TO be weighed by it's con
sequences. From the discovery Of Amer
ca by the Norsemcn nothing whatever
resulted The world was neither better
nor wiser. The curtain which
had been lifted for a moment stretched
again from sky TO sky. aud the New
World lay hidden in the shadow await
ing Gods good time for sunrise.
''But. had nothing resulted from these
six notifications of an exact fadY True,
the descendants OF Rolf were busy gov
erning the worlds they had captured IN
France, In England, Scotland, linly aud
Spain. crusading and rolieking about
after their own family fashion, while the
rest Of the world busted itself Keeping
out of their way. But Ninland was not
forgotten, else how could Christof Co
lomb have got TO know Of lis existence
lust previous 10 or during HE visit 10
Iceland, which he did IN years imniedi-
ately preceding 1902
iceland, or Issa-land (the land Of lisa
or iesusl was still owned and governed
by the DESCENDANTS Of these discovers;
and Ii "A a noteworthy fact that when
Christof landed on American shores that
Friday. II Oct, 1892. the green haE with
the upright cross which he 70 proudly
carried was hut the banner Of the Thor
fms, the Fries sous. the Sanqnhars,
whose symbol had for renturies been tho
upright cross on whatever grouna-color
especially belonged 10 tue lanl or lflhr
which bore il. Sometimes the color was
black. blue. red or green: and The grim
land pennon WAS the fitting one for Co
inmbns 10 carry. TO whom b. given all
honor and praise which is rigminliy biz
due.
1T Is q curious coincilenrc, II Il be
nothing more. that the first known inpnr-
isnt member Of the San <lar or 81,
Clair family who saw America. was
Biorn. John Rolls son. about the year
$3.50 and that Rolls llneal reprsren-
tativc Of today, another John, the present
Ear Of Carthnees, should have ooine 70
ssViniandH Just q thousand years later
20 make his good fortune on an estate
which lie named ''BerricdalcH Which
means exactly the SINE as Ninand 1.-The
land Of the frnit-ylnef
When tile small aud obscure author
NJ n rambling address. delivered for The
ed,6eation o. handful Of readres In Q
remote Ohio village. last. August uiads
lid abatement that one Of Their confnon
anccstors had discovered America hun.
drz1 xear. or 50 before CiuubH@ eni
ihee. She did not dream q dslraetinE