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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 COLUMBUS1
II.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS12
III.—COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS
A DREADFUL STORM21
IV.—COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE35
VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE
CONTINENT OF AMERICA45
V.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE
HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA59
VI.—PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED,
AND OF HIS DEATH65
VII.—PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF
ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI73
VIII.—PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND
...

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