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Seven and a half weeks later the land he saw was not Asia but what is now Canada, an impassable barrier of earth, mountain and forest. When his reports were compared with those of his contemporary, Columbus, invincible explorers of Portugal, Spain, France and Britain knew that one must sail beyond or around that barrier to get at the riches of the East. The four-century search for a northwest passage had begun...
...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
...known as Abraham Rydberg. Both crews include seamy professionals as well as enthusiastic amateurs. Owner Gubelmann was not aboard Seven Seas last week but his son Walter was. So was 18-year-old George Emlen Roosevelt Jr., cousin of the President, who has crossed the Atlantic 14 times under sail. On the Conrad were George M. Pynchon Jr., crack blue-water yachtsman, and Vadim Makaroff, son of a Russian admiral and second husband of young Owner Hartford's thrice-married sister, Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Makaroff Douglas...
...northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White's daughter, Eleanor Dare, bore her husband Ananias, a daughter who was christened Virginia, first child born to English parents in the present U. S. Virginia Dare was nine days old when Governor White left his colony to sail back to England for more money and settlers. When he returned four years later, Fort Raleigh was a deserted, weed-covered ruin. Sole explanation was the Indian word CROATOAN, cut into a post beside the gate...
Macaulay: ". . . There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be . . . laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...