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