... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...Ideal scene of Troglodytes, on the Red Sea Coast......................... 35 A Phoenician Ship........................................................... ... and fro upon its crystal waters; where are the ports of Tyre and Sidon of the Phoenicians that ruled the world, of Carthage that disputed with Rome, ... ...wn to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great... ...nd, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also distributed themselves in colonies on the islands that were then known as the Faroes, Hebrides, O... ...e of the several vessels which he had laden with provisions for trade with the colonies was driven by a storm so far south-westerly out of its course ... ...rosperous intercourse with both Iceland and Vinland, there is no record of the colonies after the close of communication with those who had settled in...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...