PETER PARLEY.

LONDON:
DARTON AND HODGE, HOLBORN HILL.
1862.

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I.—PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED,
AND ABOUT COLUMBUS	[1]
II.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS	[12]
III.—COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS
A DREADFUL STORM	[21]
IV.—COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE	[35]
VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE
CONTINENT OF AMERICA	[45]
V.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE
HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA	[59]
VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED,
AND OF HIS DEATH	[65]
VII.—PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF
ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI	[73]

VIII.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND
FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD	[79]
IX.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO	[96]
X.—PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND
CONQUERED PERU	[121]
XI.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE BEAUTIES OF AMERICA	[133]
XII.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN
AMERICA	[141]
XIII.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS	[150]
XIV.—PARLEY SHOWS HOW THE UNITED STATES AROSE, AND
WHAT FOLLOWED THEIR ESTABLISHMENT	[165]
XV.—PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES	[176]
XVI.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS OF AUSTRALIA—THE
BRITISH SETTLEMENTS—THE GOLD REGIONS—RECENT
EXPLORATIONS	[185]
XVII.—CONCLUSION	[207]