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PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, HROWN & GREEN, PATERNOSTER ROW:
AND JOHN TAYLOR, UPPER GOWER STREET.
CONTENTS.
BOOK IV.
MODERN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FROM COLUMBUS TO CAPTAIN
COOK.
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CHAP. I.
COLUMBUS.
-Dis-
Second Voyage of Columbus. General Enthusiasm in his Favour. --
Arrives at the Caribbee Islands. - Approaches Hispaniola.- Finds the
Fort destroyed. - Fate of the Spaniards who had remained. The City
of Isabella founded. - Columbus pursues his Voyage to the West.
covers Jamaica. Supposes Cuba to be a Part of Asia. Returns to
Hispaniola in broken Health. Confusion of Affairs. - Arrival of Bar-
tholomew Columbus.- Complaints sent home. - Juan de Aguado ap-
pointed Commissioner. -Columbus returns to Spain. Well received.
His third Voyage. Discovers the American Continent. - State of
the Colony at St. Domingo.- Bobadilla appointed Governor. - He sends
home Columbus in Chains.- Public Feeling towards the Admiral. —
Ovando supersedes Bobadilla. Page 1
CHAP. II.
COLUMBUS AND AMERIGO VESPUCCI.
Fourth Voyage of Columbus. - Occurrences at Hispaniola.- Fate of Bo-
badilla. Columbus reaches Honduras. - Receives Accounts respecting
Mexico. Examines the Coast of Veragua. - Sufferings of the Expe-
dition.-Shipwreck on the Coast of Jamaica.- Bold Voyage to Hispaniola
in a Canoe.-Distress of Columbus. - Inhuman Conduct of Ovando. -
The Admiral at length relieved. - Returns to Spain. - His Death. -
Honours paid to his Ashes. - Merit of his Discovery. Expressions of
the Classic Writers supposed to relate to America. - Claims of the
Dieppois to the Discovery of the New World. -Of the Basques and
Bretons. Alonzo de Hojeda follows in the Track of the Admiral. —
Amerigo Vespucci falsely claims the Honour of having discovered the
Continent.Testimony of the Pilots. Causes which enabled him to
impose his Name on the New World. 13
CHAP. III.
EARLY DISCOVERIES IN AMERICA.
Navigators who emulated the Fame of Columbus. — Vincent Yanez Pinzon.
- Discovers Brazil. - The River of Amazons. - Brings home the first
Opossum seen in Europe. - Voyage of Bastidas. - Explores Venezuela
and Carthagena. - His Distresses.- Provinces awarded to him, - Policy
of the Spanish Court. -Jealousy excited by the English and Portuguese.
- Expedition of Pinzon and Solis to South America.- Second Voyage of
Solis. Its Object. - He reaches the River La Plata. - Devoured by the
Savages.- Exertions of Hojeda. - His Expedition to colonise Uraba. ---
Finds a Rival in Nicuessa.- Defeated by the Indians - Builds St. Sebas-
tian. - His Sufferings and Death.- Wretched Fate of Nicuessa.- Balboa
remains in Darien. - Marches across the Isthmus. - Discovers the South
Sea. Superseded by Pedrarias. - His unhappy End.
CHAP. IV.
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SPANISH DISCOVERIES, AND FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH.
Diego Columbus takes the chief Command in the Colonies. Increased
Energy. Ponce de Leon seeks the Fountain of Youth. - Discovers
Florida. - Observes the Eastward Currents. - Expeditions of Garay.
Cordoba visits Yucatan.― Grijalva discovers New Spain.- Aillon reaches
the Coast of Carolina. - Attempts to make a Settlement. His melan-
choly Failure. - Fernando Magellan. - Respective Rights of Spain and
Portugal. Magellan engages to conduct a Fleet westward to the Mo-
luccas. Winters on the Coast of Patagonia. - Mutiny in the Fleet. -
His stern Conduct.- The Natives described.-The Guanaco. - Magellan
enters the Pacific Ocean. — Arrives at the Philippine Isles. - Converts
the King of Zebu, and engages in Warfare for his Sake. Is slain by
the Islanders.—Treacherous Conduct of the King of Zebu. - The two
remaining Ships reach the Moluccas. Fate of the Trinidad. - The
Vittoria completes the Circumnavigation of the Earth. Loss of a Day
in her Reckoning.
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CHAP. V.
FERNANDO CORTEZ.
Education of Cortez Arrives at Cuba. - Appointed to command the
Expedition against New Spain. - Throws off the Authority of Velasquez.
-Builds Vera Cruz.-Commences his March.-Defeats the Tlascalans.-
Massacre at Cholula. - The Spaniards enter the City of Mexico. -Danger
of their Situation. - Cortez arrests Montezuma. - Defeats Narvaez. -
Revolt of the Mexicans. - Death of Montezuma. - Battle of Otumba,
and Triumph of the Spaniards.- Mexico surrenders.- Alvarado marches
to Guatemala. - Expedition of De Olid. - Cortez conducts an Army from
Mexico to Honduras. - Convention of Badajos. - Loyasa sent with a
Fleet to the Moluccas. His Fate.-Voyage of the Pataca. - Cortez
sends Saavedra to assist Loyasa. Surprise of the Portuguese. -Saavedra
discovers New Guinea and other Islands. His Fate. Cortez becomes
How received. —
an Object of political Jealousy. Revisits Spain.
Returns to Mexico with diminished Power. - Discovers California. -
Consumes his Fortune in fruitless Expeditions. · -Returns to Spain. -
His African Campaign. - Neglected by the Court.- His Death. Page 53
CHAP. VI.
CONQUEST OF PERU.
New Efforts of the Spaniards. -
-Combination of Pizarro, Almagro, and
Luque. First Attempt of Pizarro on Peru. - His Failure. - Succeeds
in visiting that Country. His Negotiations in Spain. - -Invades Peru.
-Seizes the Inca. - The Spaniards obtain an immense Treasure. - -The
Inca put to Death. Almagro invades Chili. Sufferings of the
Spaniards. - Revolt of the Peruvians.- Civil War between Almagro and
Pizarro. Almagro defeated and put to Death. - Valdivia penetrates to
the Southern Borders of Chili.- Extraordinary Journey of Vadillo. -
Benalcazar conquers Quito. Expedition of Alvarado. Gonzalez Pi-
zarro marches in search of the Cinnamon Country. -Difficulties of the
March. Gonzalez reaches the Cinnamon Country, and rashly explores
towards the East. - Sufferings of the Expedition. -Francisco de Orel-
lana embarks on the Maragnon. - Descends that River to the Ocean. -
He propagates Stories of El Dorado and Nations of Amazons. - Fate of
Orellana. Return of Gonzalez Pizarro to Quito. - Rebellion of Al-
magro's Party.- Death of Francisco Pizarro.
CHAP. VII.
CONQUESTS OF THE SPANIARDS.
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Brazil neglected by the Portuguese. Diogo Alvarez shipwrecked on the
Shores of that Country; spared by the Savages, and becomes a Cacique.
- Visits Europe, and returns to Brazil. - Colony of Janeiro founded. -
Sebastian Cabot explores the River La Plata. - Ascends the Parana.-
Pedro de Mendoza founds the City of Buenos Ayres. Ayoles ascends
the River Paraguay, and crosses the Mountains to Peru. - Yrala com-
pletes his Discovery. - Narvaez undertakes the Conquest of Florida. -
Penetrates to Apalachan. His calamitous Retreat. - Adventures of
his Treasurer, Alvaro Nunez. - The Savages shocked at the Cannibalism
of the Spaniards. - Alvaro turns Merchant and Physician to the Indians.
-Travels from Florida to Mexico. - Florida bestowed on Fernando de
Soto. - His unhappy Fate.- Alvaro Nunez made Governor of La Plata
- His Journey from the Coast to the Parana. - Calamitous Termination
of his Command. - Journey of Marcos de Nizza to Civola, — Expedition
of Alarchon and Coronado in search of the Seven Cities. Their disap-
pointment. Supposed Invention of a Steam Ship by Garay. — Rapid
Decline of Energy in the Spanish Colonies.
CHAP. VIII.
CONQUESTS OF THE PORTUGUESE.
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Policy of Portugal with respect to its Conquests in India. - Cabral de
spatched with a Fleet. Discovers Brazil,-Fate of Bartholomew Diaz