THE HISTORY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO TILE DEATH OF GENERAL WASHINGTON. BY RICHARD SNOWDEN, EŠQ. REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED, AND THE HISTORY OF NORTH OF CAROBOBO IN THE SAME YEAR. BY CHARLES W. BAZELEY. History is the depository of the experiments of social science; and it is important Philadelphia. No. 171 MARKET STREET. Entcrcd according to the act of congress, in the year 1832, by M'Cartg & Davis, in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. STEP.EOTYPED BY J. HOWE. 57 TABLE OF CONTENTS. the TV' OF SOUTH AMERICA. Colunibus returns to Spain with great treasures. Hc sails on a third voyage. He arrives at Trinidad. Mutiny of Roldan.... He is sent as a prisoner to Spain. Qvando's appointincnt as Governor Columbus sails the fourth time. lle visits St. Domingo... Ilonduras and Yucatan Hc suffers shipwreck His death.... Anacoana cruelly lrcaici! by Ovando. Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean. Cortcs accompanies Velasquez to ('uba. He invades Mexico.. Character of Montezuma. lic meets (ortes... Montezuma made prisoner. Cortes gets full possession of Mexico. Magellan sails from Seville.. Account of Pizarro. His conquest of Peru. Revolution of New Granada. Venezuela Colombia.. Buenos Ayres. Chili OF NORTH AMERICA. Conjectures on peopling America Character of the Aborigines... State of the country in 1763. British parliament lay duties on imports. 47 48 50 52 55 57 58 59 60 63 65 74 81 85 89 102 105 134 135 141 154 188 189 190 191 194 198 202 221 224 |