CONTENTS.

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[CHAPTER I.]
Ancient America,

1
[CHAPTER II.]
The Mound-Builders,

5
[CHAPTER III.]
The Red Men,

14
[CHAPTER IV.]
The Northmen,

27
[CHAPTER V.]
Columbus and the Discovery of America,

38
[CHAPTER VI.]
The Cabots,

61
[CHAPTER VII.]
Americus Vespucius,

65
[CHAPTER VIII.]
Ponce de Leon,

71
[CHAPTER IX.]
Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean,

76
[CHAPTER X.]
Cabeca de Vaca,

85
[CHAPTER XI.]
Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico,

103
[CHAPTER XII.]
Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru,

114
[CHAPTER XIII.]
Ferdinand de Soto, the Discoverer of the Mississippi,

172
[CHAPTER XIV.]
Verrazano,

199
[CHAPTER XV.]
Jacques Cartier,

210
[CHAPTER XVI.]
The Huguenots,

228
[CHAPTER XVII.
]
Sir Walter Raleigh,

254
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
The Story of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess,

259
[CHAPTER XIX.]
The Settlement of Maine, and Discovery of Lake Champlain,

269
[CHAPTER XX.
]
Henry Hudson and the Knickerbockers,

292
[CHAPTER XXI.]
The Pilgrims and the Settlement of New England,

300
[CHAPTER XXII.]
La Salle,

316
[CHAPTER XXIII.]
The Story of Acadia,

331
[CHAPTER XXIV.]
The Story of Pontiac,

337
[CHAPTER XXV.]
The Revolution,

348