Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — Where John Cabot Probably Landed. [ARTICLE]

Where John Cabot Probably Landed.

Historians and scholars cannot agree as to whether to Christopher Columbus or to J ohn Cabot belongs the honor of the discovery of the American continent. Many believe and assert that it belongs to the latter. The exhaustive researches recently made by Prof. Horsford would seem to show that Cabot first landed, not, as has been supposed, at some point on the coast of Maine, but at Salem Neck, on the coast of Massachusetts, and, proceeding southward, entered what is now Boston Harbor, and thence up Charles River, building a fort on its banks. It is probable, then, that John Cabot and his crew were the first white men who ever looked upon the pleasant shores of what is now South Boston. That it had been a favorite spot with the Indian tribes is attested by the discoveries made in digging for the foundations of buildings in later years.— Boston Globe. A young Athenian maiden walked in the procession at the festivals of Demeter, Bacchus and Athena, carrying a flat basket on her head, in which were deposited the sacred coke, chaplet, frankincense and knife to slay the victim.