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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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ians and settled in thecountry. It was over twenty years before theFrench and English did much in North Amer-ica. 1502—Columbus, now free, sails on his fourthand last voyage from Cadiz, May 9, with a fleetof four vessels. Lands on the coast of HondurasAugust 14, his first arrival on the mainland ofAmerica. 1506—Columbus dies at Valladolid, Spain, May20. 1512—Juan Ponce de Leon, who had beenSpanish governor of Porto Rico, hears of a won-derful fountain in some land to the northward,whose waters can restore youth to old men.Hoping to find this fountain, he sails from PortoRico on March 3, and on April 2 lands on thecoast of Florida. He gave it this name, as isthought, because of its discovery on Easter day,which in Spanish is called Pasqiia florida(flowery Easter). 1513—On September 25 Vasco Nunez de Bal-boa discovers the Pacific Ocean from the sum-mit of a mountain near Panama. He was thefirst modern European to view this great ex-panse of water, and he promptly proclaimed that
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