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Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Edited by Rev. T. Wilson, Illustrated by S. Williams
Title: Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Editor: Rev. T. Wilson
Release Date: October 17, 2005 [eBook #16891]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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TALES
ABOUT
AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.
BY
PETER PARLEY.
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 COLUMBUS | 1 |
| II.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS | 12 |
| III.—COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS | |
| A DREADFUL STORM | 21 |
| IV.—COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE | 35 |
| VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE | |
| CONTINENT OF AMERICA | 45 |
| V.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE | |
| HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA | 59 |
| VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED, | |
| AND OF HIS DEATH | 65 |
| VII.—PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF | |
| ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI | 73 |
| VIII.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND | |
| FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD | 79 |
| IX.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO | 96 |
| X.—PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND | |
| CONQUERED PERU | 121 |
| XI.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE BEAUTIES OF AMERICA | 133 |
| XII.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN | |
| AMERICA | 141 |
| XIII.—PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS | 150 |
| XIV.—PARLEY SHOWS HOW THE UNITED STATES AROSE, AND | |
| WHAT FOLLOWED THEIR ESTABLISHMENT | 165 |
| XV.—PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES | 176 |
| XVI.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS OF AUSTRALIA—THE | |
| BRITISH SETTLEMENTS—THE GOLD REGIONS—RECENT | |
| EXPLORATIONS | 185 |
| XVII.—CONCLUSION | 207 |
CHAPTER I.
PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED, AND ABOUT COLUMBUS THE DISCOVERER.
Now that I have given you an account of European cities in my "Tales about Europe," I shall now furnish you with some description of America, with its flourishing cities, and its multitude of ships, its fertile fields, its