110 The Humming Bird. 



FOURTH EPOCH 



PRINCIPAL EXPEDITIONS TO AMERICA 



By Europeans, since Leiï, son of Erick the Red. 



In the year 1170 of our era, died Owen Guyneth, Prince of 

 Wales, leaving several sons who quarelled over his succes- 

 sion. 



Amongst them was Madok, a Prince of mild disposition, 

 who threw up his share and seeked for new fortunes 

 abroad ; whereupon there were many who ventured their 

 lives with him. So rigging a small fleet, he sailed westward, 

 far beyond IRELAND, where at last he discovered an unknown 

 and inhabited country with a temperate climate and a most 

 fertile soil. Glad of his success, he returned and spreading 

 the fame of this new found land where they might go. 



So many were those willing to accompany him that he 

 was able to send forth ten good ships, freighted only with 

 men, women and children, and all other materials fit for a 

 new plantation. 



Shortly after they landed in Acuzamil, a country in the 

 north of America, as Francis Lopez de Gomara believes ; 

 because there only, he found some remaining tracts of 

 Christianity, a people that worshipped the Gross; but not 

 knowing why they did it. The country where MADOK landed 

 is perhaps Yucatan. 



1390. According to Matthias Quadius and Antonius 

 Maginus, Antonio Zeno, a pratician of Venice, discovered in 

 that year what we know as Labrador. It was then inhabited 

 by people, who traded with Groenland and Iceland. They 

 sowed corn and made beer. Moreover there is a tradition 

 that they had some knowledge of the latine tongue and that 

 several latine books were found in the library of one their 

 kings. 



August 1492. Cristobal Colonus, or Columbus, started 

 from Palos (Spain) to the Canaries Islands, and on the 12 lh 

 of September discovered Hay Li , one of the islands of the 

 Antilke, which he called HISPANIOLA. 



In his subsequent voyages, he discovered many of the 

 islands known, as AntUlœ, the Terra ftrma, or what is 

 known now as the Isthmus of Panama, including Veragua, 

 and the Coast of Paria or Para (1). 



(1) For more details, sec the notice on Ciiiustopuer Columbus, which 

 appeared ia the preceding uuuiber of the Mumming Bird. 



