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 |