PETER PARLEY.
Reading edition
A New Edition,
BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.
REVISED BY
THE REV. T. WILSON.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. WILLIAMS.
LONDON: DARTON AND HODGE, HOLBORN HILL. 1862.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
I.—PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED,
AND ABOUT COLUMBUS1
II.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS12
III.—COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS
A DREADFUL STORM21
IV.—COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE35
VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE
CONTINENT OF AMERICA45
V.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE
HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA59
VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED,
AND OF HIS DEATH65
VII.—PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF
ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI73
VIII.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND
FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD79
IX.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO96
X.—PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND
CONQUERED PERU121
XI.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE BEAUTIES OF AMERICA133
XII.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN
AMERICA141
XIII.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS150
XIV.—PARLEY SHOWS HOW THE UNITED STATES AROSE, AND
WHAT FOLLOWED THEIR ESTABLISHMENT165
XV.—PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES176
XVI.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS OF AUSTRALIA—THE
BRITISH SETTLEMENTS—THE GOLD REGIONS—RECENT
EXPLORATIONS185
XVII.—CONCLUSION207