Questions.

1. After whom was America called? After whom should it have been called?

2. Who first discovered North America? When did Cabot discover it?

3. What people first settled in America? How many came over? How long was their voyage?

4. What bay did they enter? What river? How far did they sail up that river? Where did they settle? What did they call the place?

5. What was the appearance of the country? What kind of houses did they live in?

6. On what, at first, did they live? When their provisions were gone what was their condition? How were they relieved?

Story.

1. The man who saved the first Jamestown colonists from starvation was named John Smith. He had such a long life of wonderful adventures that it would be impossible to tell them all in this little book. His parents died when he was quite young, and at fifteen the lad ran away from England, and without money or friends travelled through France and Holland.

2. Very brave and very clever, Smith seemed likely to become one of the finest soldiers in Europe. But suddenly he returned to England, and built himself a bower of green boughs in a lonely forest. Here he lived with no companion. but his horse, a fine animal, of which the young soldier was very fond. He studied books about war, and practised horsemanship and archery, and handling the sword and the lance.

3. After a while he left England again and went to Italy. One day he was sailing in a small vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, when a storm arose. The crew thought their strange passenger to be a bad man, and therefore the cause of the storm; so he was cast by them, like Jonahı of old, into the sea. Being a good swimmer, he reached a small island in safety, and from thence sailed in a French vessel to Egypt.

4. Smith's next adventure was in Austria. He joined the Austrian army, which was then fighting the Turks, and took command of a company of horse, which was known as the "Fiery Dragoons." During the siege of a town, a Turkish officer, "to amuse the ladies," offered to engage in single fight with any Christian soldier in the Austrian army. Smith was chosen, and he soon had slain the Turk and cut off his head. Not long after, in a skirmish with the Turks, he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. He was sold as a slave, and the pacha who bought him presented him to a lady.

5. This Turkish lady pitied the young and brave Christian captive, and sent him to her brother, with orders that he should be kindly treated. These orders were not obeyed. Smith suffered so much from the harshness of his new master, that one day, when alone in the field together, he fought with and slew him. Seizing a horse, he made his escape.

6. At last he returned to his native England, and reached it at the time when the Jamestown colonists were about to set sail for America. To Smith's daring and roving mind, the idea of a New World for brave deeds and strange exploits was delightful, and he joined the colonists. Of his adventures in America I will tell you something in my next story.

1. When the English came to America, they found the whole land filled with Indians. Their number was about one hundred and fifty thousand within the limits of the thirteen original States.

2. How long the Indians had been in America is not known. It is supposed they came from Asia, across Behring's Strait. This strait separates America from Asia.

3. The Indians were quite tall and straight; their color was red or brown. They had long, black, and coarse hair. They were very brave, but cruel and revengeful.

4. Their huts they called wigwams. on the flesh of wild animals and fish.

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they had corn, beans, peas, and potatoes. The English never saw Indian corn before they came to America. It is called Indian corn because it was found among the Indians. Their name for it was maize.

5. The Indians in America were divided into tribes. Each tribe had a king, or chief, whom they called their sachem. Between these tribes there

were often bloody wars. Indians delight in war. The weapons which they used were clubs, bows and arrows, and tomahawks.

6. The tomahawk was made of stone. With this weapon they used to cut off the top part of the heads of those whom they took prisoners. This was called scalping. Before going to war, they always sounded the war-whoop. This was a yell, sounding like "Wo-ach, Wo-ach, ha hach Wo-ach!"

7. On concluding a peace, each smoked the same pipe, called a Calumet, made of red stone. Its stem was more than a yard long. It was ornamented with porcupine's quills, beads, and ribbons. The Indians worshipped a Good Spirit and an Evil Spirit. But of the true God they knew nothing; nor had they ever heard of the Bible or of Jesus Christ.

Questions.

1. Who inhabited America before the English came over? What was the number of Indians in the bounds of the thirteen original States?

2. How long had they lived in America? From what country did they come? Across what strait? What does this strait separate?

3. What was the appearance of the Indians? What was their color?" What kind of hair had they? Were they brave? Were they kind and forgiving?

4. What were their huts called? On what did they live? On what else? Was Indian corn known to the English before they came to America? Why was it called Indian corn? What did the Indians

call it?

5. How were the Indians divided? What was their chief called? What is said of wars between them? In what do Indians delight? What are their weapons of war?

6. Of what was the tomahawk made? What was its use? What is scalping? What did the Indians do before going to war?

7. When peace was made, what did they do? What was this pipe called? What did the Indians worship? What did they know of the true God? What of the Bible and Jesus Christ?

Story.

1. I will now finish my story about Captain John Smith, as he was called by the colonists.

2. The Indians, at first, seemed well pleased to see Captain Smith and the other English people. For a time they treated them kindly, and gave them corn.

3. But their kindness did not last long. They began to suspect that the English intended to rob them of their lands,