LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "THE POOR LITTLE GOVERNOR … DISTANCED HIS FIERCE
PURSUERS AT LAST" ]

Drawing by Seymour M. Stone
Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
[ "OJEDA GALLOPED OFF WITH HIS … CAPTIVE" ]
Drawing by Seymour M. Stone
6
[ "THE INDIANS POURED A RAIN OF POISONED ARROWS" ]
Drawing by Seymour M. Stone
7
[ "BALBOA … ENGAGED IN SUPERINTENDING THE ROOFING OF A HOUSE" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
34
[ "THE EXPEDITION HAD TO FIGHT ITS WAY THROUGH TRIBES OF WARLIKE AND FEROCIOUS MOUNTAINEERS" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
35
[ "HE TOOK POSSESSION OF THE SEA IN THE NAME OF CASTILE AND LEON" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
40
[ "HE THREW THE SACRED VOLUME TO THE GROUND IN A VIOLENT RAGE" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
41
[ "THEY BURST UPON THE RANKS OF THE UNARMED INDIANS" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
86
[ "THE THREE PIZARROS … SALLIED OUT TO MEET THEM" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
87
[ "HE THREW HIS SOLE REMAINING WEAPON IN THE FACES OF THE ESCALADERS" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
102
[ FERNANDO CORTES ]
From a picture in the Florence Gallery
103
[ THE DEATH OF MONTEZUMA ]
From an old engraving
178
[ "HE DEFENDED HIMSELF WITH HIS TERRIBLE SPEAR" ]
Drawing by George Gibbs
179
[ "THE SHIP CAME TO A DEAD STOP" ]
Drawing by W. J. Aylward
234
[ THE KILLING OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON BY AARON BURR ]
Drawing by J. N. Marchand
233

The publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to The Cosmopolitan Magazine and Munsey's Magazine for permission to use several of the illustrations in this volume.

PART I
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS