Venient annis saecula seris
Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum
Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus
Tethys que novos detegat orbes.
—Seneca.
NEW YORK McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMIV
Copyright, 1903, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction | [9] | |
| I. | Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America | [19] |
| II. | "Discovery of the World and of Man" | [36] |
| III. | The Extinct Civilization of the Aztecs | [54] |
| IV. | American Archeology | [71] |
| V. | Mexico before the Spanish Invasion | [88] |
| VI. | Arrival of the Spaniards | [106] |
| VII. | Cortés and Montezuma | [135] |
| VIII. | Balboa and the Isthmus | [164] |
| IX. | Extinct Civilization of Peru | [172] |
| X. | Pizarro and the Incas | [186] |