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NEW FRANCE," MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK, MASSACHUSETTS, MARYLAND,

AND OTHER HISTORICAL SOCIETIES.

VOLUME I.

NEW YORK:

M° MENAMY, HESS, & CO.,

735 BROADWAY.

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The Crusades made the East known to the Kingdoms of Western Europe-Travels of Mis sionaries and Traders—The Atlantic-What was known of it-St. Brendan's Isle-What it was-Iceland, Greenland—The way to the Indies around the Cape of Good Hope-Romantic Story of the Madeira Islands-Geography and its Cultivation in Italy.

THE Crusades and their romantic history are known at least in outline to all. Few have not read of those wonderful wars in which armies from all the new-formed kingdoms of Western Europe poured down upon Asia to rescue the tomb of Christ, the Holy Sepulchre, from the hands of the Mohammedans. The prodigies of valor achieved by Godfrey de Bouillon, Richard Coeur de Lion, Tancred, Louis IX., the Knights of the Temple, and of St. John of Jerusalem, will ever possess the charm of a romance. All Europe burned with the fever of excitement. The very children were roused to action and sought to take part in the expeditions which absorbed all minds. One of the strangest episodes of the whole period of these wars, was the Crusade of the Children, undertaken in 1212 by an army of brave, but misguided boys.

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