A BOOK OF
AMERICAN EXPLORERS
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[COLUMBUS AT THE MOUTH OF THE ORINOCO.]
Young Folks’ Series.
A BOOK OF
AMERICAN EXPLORERS
BY
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
AUTHOR OF “YOUNG FOLKS’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,” ETC.
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD
1877
COPYRIGHT.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
1877.
Electrotyped and Printed by
Rand, Avery, and Company,
117 Franklin Street,
Boston.
DEDICATION.
TO
GEORGE BARRELL EMERSON,
WITHOUT WHOSE COUNSEL AND WHOSE EFFICIENT KINDNESS THIS HISTORICAL SERIES WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN,
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY
INSCRIBED.