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OF ILLUSTRATIONS
COLUMBUS. (After a portrait by Herrera) Frontispiece TEMPLE
MOUND IN MEXICO BIG ELEPHANT MOUND, WISCONSIN
DIGHTON ROCK THE OLD STONE MILL AT NEWPORT, R. I.
PRINCE HENRY OF PORTUGAL--"THE NAVIGATOR." (From an
old print) QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN. COLUMBUS BEGGING
AT THE FRANCISCAN CONVENT EMBARKATION OF
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AT PALOS. (From an old print)
AMERIGO VESPUCCI. (Fac-simile of an old print) VASCO DA
GAMA. (From an old print) BALBOA DISCOVERING THE
PACIFIC OCEAN PONCE DE LEON HERNANDO CORTES, (From
an old print) MONTEZUMA MORTALLY WOUNDED BY HIS
OWN SUBJECTS DEATH OF MAGELLAN FERDINAND DE
SOTO A PALISADED INDIAN TOWN IN ALABAMA BURIAL OF
DE SOTO IN THE MISSISSIPPI AT NIGHT FORT CAROLINA ON
THE RIVER OF MAY PEDRO MELENDEZ INDIANS DEVOURED
BY DOGS. (From an old print) VERRAZANO, THE FLORENTINE
NAVIGATOR JACQUES CARTIER, (From an old print)
SEBASTIAN CABOT, (From an old print) AN INDIAN VILLAGE

AT THE ROANOKE SETTLEMENT SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
SIR WALTER RALEIGH QUEEN ELIZABETH KING JAMES I.
(From Mr. Henry Irving's Collection) TOBACCO PLANT. CAPTAIN
JOHN SMITH. POCAHONTAS SAVING CAPTAIN SMITH'S LIFE.
(From Smith's "General History ") THE COUNCIL OF POWHATAN.
(From Smith's "General History ") POCAHONTAS. SIGNATURE OF
BERKELEY. PLYMOUTH HARBOR, ENGLAND. HARBOR OF
PROVINCETOWN, CAPE COD, WHERE THE PILGRIMS
LANDED. THE LIFE OF THE COLONY AT CAPE COD.
SIGNATURES TO PLYMOUTH PATENT. SITE OF FIRST
CHURCH AND GOVERNOR BRADFORD'S HOUSE AT
PLYMOUTH. GOVERNOR WINTHROP. FIRST CHURCH IN
SALEM. SEAL OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY. ROGER
WILLIAMS' HOUSE AT SALEM. EDWARD WINSLOW.
MARYLAND SHILLING. HENRIETTA MARIA. SUPPOSED
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM CLAYBORNE. CLAYBORNE'S
TRADING POST ON KENT ISLAND. FIGHT BETWEEN
CLAYBORNE AND THE ST. MARY'S SHIP. OLIVER
CROMWELL. SEAL OF NEW AMSTERDAM. PETER
STUYVESANT. SEAL OF NEW NETHERLAND. EARLIEST
PICTURE OF NEW AMSTERDAM. DE VRIES. COSTUMES OF
SWEDES. THE OLD STADT HUYS AT NEW AMSTERDAM. NEW
AMSTERDAM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY. THE DUKE OF YORK, AFTERWARDS JAMES II.
THE TOMB OF STUYVESANT. ATTACK ON THE FORT OF THE
PEQUOTS ON THE MYSTIC RIVER. ATTACK ON THE PEQUOT
FORT. SIGNATURE OF MIANTONOMOH. THE GRAVE OF
MIANTONOMOH. TOTEM OR TRIBE MARK OF THE FIVE
NATIONS. KING CHARLES II. JOHN WINTHROP THE
YOUNGER. SIR EDMOND ANDROS. THE CHARTER OAK AT
HARTFORD. BOX IN WHICH THE CONNECTICUT CHARTER
WAS KEPT. THE MONUMENT AT BLOODY BROOK. GOFFE AT
HADLEY. INCREASE MATHER. COTTON MATHER. OLD
TITUBA THE INDIAN. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR STOUGHTON.
FAC-SIMILE OF SHERIFF'S RETURN OF AN EXECUTION.
SLOUGHTER SIGNING LEISLER'S DEATH WARRANT. SEAL OF
THE CARTERETS. SEAL OF EAST JERSEY. WAMPUM

RECEIVED BY PENN IN COMMEMORATION OF THE INDIAN
TREATY. WILLIAM PENN. THE TREATY MONUMENT,
KENSINGTON. THE PENN MANSION IN PHILADELPHIA.
CHARLES, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE. REV, DR. BLAIR,
FIRST PRESIDENT OF WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.
GEORGE MONK, DUKE OF ALBEMARLE. LORD
SHAFTESBURY. SEAL OF THE PROPRIETORS OF CAROLINA.
JOHN LOCKE. SAVANNAH. (From a print of 1741) JAMES
OGLETHORPE. COSTUMES ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. JAMES LOGAN. KING WILLIAM.
QUEEN MARY CHIEF JUSTICE SEWALL. THE PILLORY.
SIGNATURE OF JOLLIET. (old spelling) TOTEM OF THE SIOUX.
A SIOUX CHIEF. TOTEM OF THE ILLINOIS. THE RECEPTION
OF JOLIET AND MARQUETTE BY THE ILLINOIS. LOUIS XIV.
COINS STRUCK IN FRANCE FOR THE COLONIES.
ASSASSINATION OF LA SALLE. NEW ORLEANS IN 1719.
SIGNATURE OF D'IBERVILLE. THE ATTACK ON
SCHENECTADY. HANNAH DUSTIN'S ESCAPE. QUEEN ANNE.
GOVERNOR SHIRLEY. SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL THE
AMBUSCADE THE DEATH OF BRADDOCK. MONTCALM.
WILLIAM PITT. GENERAL WOLFE. LANDING OF WOLFE.
QUEBEC IN 1730. (From an old print) BOUQUET'S REDOUBT AT
PITTSBURGH.

LIST OF MAPS
GLOBUS MARTINI BEHAIM NARINBERGENSIS, 1492
EUROPEAN PROVINCES IN 1655. MARQUETTE'S MAP. PLAN
OF PORT ROYAL, NOVA SCOTIA. MAP SHOWING POSITION
OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH FORTS AND SETTLEMENTS.
BRADDOCK'S ROUTE. MAP OF BRADDOCK'S FIELD.

INTRODUCTION
AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS

Man made his appearance on the western continent unnumbered ages
ago, not unlikely before the close of the glacial period. It is possible
that human life began in Asia and western North America sooner than
on either shore of the Atlantic. Nothing wholly forbids the belief that
America was even the cradle of the race, or one of several cradles,
though most scientific writers prefer the view that our species came
hither from Asia. De Nadaillac judges it probable that the ocean was
thus crossed not at Behring Strait alone, but along a belt of equatorial
islands as well. We may think of successive waves of such
immigration--perhaps the easiest way to account for certain differences
among American races.
It is, at any rate, an error to speak of the primordial Americans as
derived from any Asiatic stock at present existing or known to history.
The old Americans had scarcely an Asiatic feature. Their habits and
customs were emphatically peculiar to themselves. Those in which they
agreed with the trans-Pacific populations, such as fashion of weapons
and of fortifications, elements of folk-lore, religious ideas, traditions of
a flood,