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(Comprehension questions)
1. The medicine will prevent sickness from the motion
of the boat.
2. The rough water could sink the boats
3. It was named for Henry Hudson's ship. The beach is
also the same shape.
4. Yes. The island was named Little San Salvador.
5. It means shallow sea.
6. (Answers may vary) A lot of sickness. Slavery.
7. Missionaries started a European settlement in 1647.
8. (Possible answers) They needed food, fresh water,
get slaves.
9. Spain, Britain, United States.
10. It ended in 1835.
11. The Lukku-cari people.
12. He thought the ship had traveled to the West Indies.
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(Cloze activity)
1. abundance
2. seasick
3. incredible
4. disappointed
5. groan
6. crescent
7. missionaries
8. contagious
9. settlement
10. erroneously
11. turbulence
All names used in this story are fictitious.
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