Chapter II · Pages 10-30. COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
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Chapter II. Pages 10-30. COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
Topics for Collateral Reading.—Topics from Fiske's Discovery of America:—
First Voyage of Columbus, Vol. I, p. 419; Last Voyage of Columbus, Vol. I, p. 505; Vespucius and the "New World," Vol. II, p. 96; The Cabots and their Voyages, Vol. II, p. I; Ponce de Leon, Vol. II, p. 486; Adventures of De Soto, Vol. II, p. 509.
References for Reading.—Read selections from the one-volume edition of Irving's Life of Columbus; Abbott's Life of Columbus (Ajax Series); Adams's Columbus (Makers of America); Brooks's True Story of Columbus; Adventures of De Soto, Parkman's Pioneers of France in the New World, p. 13.
Outside Readings.—Griffis's Romance of American Discovery; Glasscock's Stories of Columbia; The Discovery of America, from the Life of Columbus, by his son, Ferdinand Columbus, Old South Leaflets, No. 29; Columbus's Letter to Gabriel Sanchez, describing the first voyage, Old South Leaflets, No. 33; Americus Vespucius's Account of his First Voyage, Old South Leaflets, No. 34; Death of De Soto, Old South Leaflets, No. 36; The Voyages of the Cabots, Old South Leaflets, No. 37.