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PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS

PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS

I

Panama and the Knights-Errant of Colonization

I. The Spanish Main

II. The Don Quixote of Discoveries and His Rival

"Ojeda Galloped Off with His Astonished Captive"

"The Indians Poured a Rain of Poisoned Arrows"

III. The Adventures of Ojeda

IV. Enter One Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

V. The Desperate Straits of Nicuesa

II

Panama, Balboa and a Forgotten Romance

I. The Coming of the Devastator

"Balboa . . . Engaged in Superintending the Roofing of a House"

II. The Greatest Exploit since Columbus's Voyage

"The Expedition Had to Fight Its Way Through Tribes of Warlike and Ferocious Mountaineers"

"He Took Possession of the Sea in the Name of Castile and Leon"

"He Threw the Sacred Volume to the Ground in a Violent Rage"

III. "Furor Domini"

IV. The End of Balboa

III

Peru and the Pizarros

A Study in Retribution "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword."

I. The Chief Scion of a Famous Family

II. The Terrible Persistence of Pizarro

III. "A Communistic Despotism."

IV. The Treacherous and Bloody Massacre of Caxamarca.

V. The Ransom and Murder of the Inca

"They Burst Upon the Ranks of the Unarmed Indians."

"The Three Pizarros . . . Sallied Out to Meet Them"

VI. The Inca and the Peruvians Strike Vainly for Freedom

"He Threw His Sole Remaining Weapon in the Faces of the Escaladers"

VII. "The Men of Chili" and the Civil Wars

Fernando Cortes. From a Picture in the Florence Gallery

VIII. The Mean End of the Great Conquistador

IX. The Last of the Brethren

IV

The Greatest Adventure in History

I. The Chief of all the Soldiers of Fortune

II. The Expedition to Mexico.

III. The Religion of the Aztecs

IV. The March to Tenochtitlan

V. The Republic of Tlascala

VI. Cortes' Description of Mexico, written by his own hand to Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain

VII. The Meeting with Montezuma

VIII. The Seizure of the Emperor

IX. The Revolt of the Capital

X. In God's Way

The Death of Montezuma. From an old engraving.

"He Defended Himself With His Terrible Spear"

XI. The Melancholy Night

XII. The Siege and Destruction of Mexico

XIII. A Day of Desperate Fighting

XIV. The Last Mexican

XV. The End of Cortes

PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

I

The Yarn of the Essex , Whaler

"The Ship Came to a Dead Stop"

"The Killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804"

II

Some Famous American Duels

I. A Tragedy of Old New York

II. Andrew Jackson as a Duellist

III. The Killing of Stephen Decatur

IV. An Episode in the Life of James Bowie

V. A Famous Congressional Duel

VI. The Last Notable Duel in America

III

The Cruise of the Tonquin

A Forgotten Tragedy in Early American History

IV

John Paul Jones

Being Further Light on His Strange Career[1]

I. The Birth of the American Navy

II. Jones First Hoists the Stars and Stripes

III. The Battle With the Serapis

IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings

V. What Jones Did for His Country

VI. Why Did He Take the Name of Jones?

VII. Search for Historical Evidence

VIII. The Joneses of North Carolina

IX. Paul Jones Never a Man of Wealth

V

In the Caverns of the Pitt

A Story of a Forgotten Fight with the Indians

VI

Being a Boy Out West

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