| PAGE |
| Amerigo Vespucci (See page 45) | Frontispiece |
| Leif Ericson | 8 |
| The Landing of Columbus | 28 |
| Amerigo Vespucci off the coast of Venezuela | 48 |
| Juan Ponce de Leon at the Fountain of Youth | 80 |
| Balboa taking possession of the Pacific Ocean in the name of the King of Spain | 97 |
| Capture by CortÉs of the City of Mexico | 178 |
| The Death of Magellan | 200 |
| Giovanni Verrazano | 208 |
| Execution of the Inca of Peru | 245 |
| De Soto in the Florida Wilderness | 256 |
| Champlain in the Indian Battle | 285 |
| Henry Hudson in New York Harbor | 317 |
| Marquette and Joliet discovering the Mississippi River | 369 |
| La Salle at the mouth of the Mississippi River | 397 |
| Robert Edwin Peary | 413 |
LEIF ERICSON:
THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO EXPLORE, AND
SETTLE IN, AMERICA.
“From Greenland’s icy mountains; from Iceland’s rocky shore,
We sailed the ship which forged ahead and ruddy oarsmen bore;
We found the wild grape growing; we scoured the river’s bed,
And chased the moose whose horns were broad, whose blood was rich and red.
Our axes felled the wild-wood, our spears the Skraelings slew,
We sank their round skin-barges as the cutting North Winds blew,
Over the wild waves rolling, back to the fiords of home,
We safely came to anchor,—but we’ll never cease to roam.”
Saga of the Vikings, 1000 a.d.
