A Book of American Explorers. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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СКАЧАТЬ II. —Alone in the New World.

       III. —Laudonnière’s Search for the Colonists.

       IV. —The Capture of Fort Caroline by the Spaniards.

       BOOK VIII. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT. (A.D. 1583.)

       The Death of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

       BOOK IX. THE LOST COLONIES OF VIRGINIA. (A.D. 1584 – 1590.)

       I. —The First Voyage to Virginia.

       II. —Visit to an Indian Princess.

       III. —Adventures of the First Virginia Colony.

       IV. —The Second English Colony in Virginia.

       V. —Search for the Lost Colony.

       BOOK X. UNSUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND. (A.D. 1602 – 1607.)

       I. —Gosnold’s Fort at Cuttyhunk.

       II. —Captain Waymouth captures Indians, and explores the Penobscot river.

       III. —The Popham Colony on the Kennebec.

       IV. —Captain Gilbert’s Adventure with the Indians.

       BOOK XI. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. (A.D. 1606 – 1631.)

       I. —Captain John Smith in Virginia.

       II. —The Virginia Colonists.

       III. —Smith captured by the Indians.

       IV. —Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.

       V. —King Powhatan.

       VI. —A Virginia Princess.

       VII. —An Indian Dance in Virginia.

       VIII. —Indian Children in Virginia.

       IX. —“The Planter’s Pleasure and Profit.”

       X. —The Glories of Fishing.

       XI. —Visit of Pocahantas to London in 1617.

       XII. —First Buildings of the Virginia Colonists.

       XIII. —Captain John Smith’s Recollections of his own Life.

       BOOK XII. CHAMPLAIN ON THE WAR-PATH. (A.D. 1609.)

       Champlain on the War-Path.

       BOOK XIII. HENRY HUDSON AND THE NEW NETHERLANDS. (A.D. 1609 – 1626.)

       I. —Discovery of the Hudson River.

       II. —Indian Traditions of Henry Hudson’s Arrival.

       III. —The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, and how he was set adrift in the Ice by his Men.

       IV. —The Dutch Settlement of the New Netherlands.

       BOOK XIV. THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH. (A.D. 1620 – 1621.)

       I. —The Sailing of the Pilgrims.

       II. —Miles Standish at Cape Cod.

       III. —The First Encounter.

       IV. —The Landing on Plymouth Rock.

       V. —Plymouth Village founded.

       VI. —“Welcome, Englishmen!”

       BOOK XV. THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. (A.D. 1629 – 1631.)

       I. СКАЧАТЬ