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Samuel G. Goodrich. Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED, AND ABOUT COLUMBUS THE DISCOVERER
CHAPTER II
PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS
CHAPTER III
COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN, AND ENCOUNTERS A DREADFUL STORM
CHAPTER IV
COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE
CHAPTER V
PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA
CHAPTER VI
PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA
CHAPTER VII
PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED, AND ALSO OF THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH
CHAPTER VIII
PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI
CHAPTER IX
PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, PLANTS, AND FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER X
PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO
CHAPTER XI
PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED PERU
CHAPTER XII
PARLEY DESCRIBES THE NATURAL BEAUTIES OF AMERICA
CHAPTER XIII
PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA
CHAPTER XIV
PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS
CHAPTER XV
PARLEY TELLS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES
AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER XVI
PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES
CHAPTER XVII
PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS, VEGETABLES, AND ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA—THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS—THE GOLD REGIONS—RECENT EXPLORATIONS
CONCLUSION
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Samuel G. Goodrich
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The admiral made signal-lights for the Pinta to keep in company, but she was separated by the violence of the storm, and her lights gleamed more and more distant till they ceased entirely.
When the day dawned the sea presented a frightful waste of wild and broken waves. Columbus looked round anxiously for the Pinta, but she was nowhere to be seen, and he became apprehensive that Pinzon had borne away for Spain, that he might reach it before him, and by giving the first account of his discoveries, deprive him of his fame.
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