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Image from page 54 of “King’s handbook of Boston harbor” (1882)
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Title: King’s handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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of the powerfulred men from the mysterious mountains and prairies of the West had notyet begun. That date takes us well back into history; for it was beforethe Norman conquest of England, or the First Crusade, or the Guelphs andGhibellines had been heard of, or Portugal, Bohemia, Switzerland, or Tur-key had become nations. TheRoman Empire still survived inthe East; and, in the West,King Ethelred was vainly tryingto beat off Sweyns fierce Danes.Centuries were to elapse beforeDante wrote, and Giotto painted,and Rienzi spoke, and RichardCoeur de Lion swung his battle-axe.The Icelandic sagas tell how Thorwald sailed from the point he calledKialamess (Cape Cod) toward the mainland, where he came to anchor notfar from a hilly promontory overgrown with wood, and was so much pleasedwith the place that he exclaimed, Here it is beautiful, and here I shouldlike to fix my abode. He met there nine men of the aborigines, eight ofwhom they killed, but the ninth escaped in his canoe. Some time after,
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On Stony Beach, Hull. 54 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. there arrived a countless number of canoes, laden with Skraellings, — as theScandinavians called the aborigines, as well of Greenland as of Vinland,—and a battle ensued. It was the first bloodshed between Europeans andthe indigenous Americans. The Norse battle-shields were arranged alongtheir bulwarks; but the undaunted Skraellings fired flights of arrows atThorwald and his men for some time, and then quickly retired. After thebattle Thorwald asked his sailors whether any of them had been wounded.Upon their denying this, he said, I am! I have an arrow under my arm,and this will be my death-blow. I now advise you to prepare for yourdeparture as soon as possible. But me you must take to that promontorywhere I thought to have made my abode. I was a prophet. For now 1shall dwell there forever. There you shall bury me, and plant there twocrosses, one at my head and one at my feet, and call the place Krossanei[the promontory of t
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