Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
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Chapters (45)
- TALES
- ABOUT
- AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.
- PETER PARLEY.
- A New Edition, BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. REVISED BY
- THE REV. T. WILSON.
- WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. WILLIAMS.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I.
- PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED, AND ABOUT COLUMBUS THE DISCOVERER.
- CHAPTER II.
- PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS.
- CHAPTER III.
- COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN, AND ENCOUNTERS A DREADFUL STORM.
- CHAPTER IV.
- COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE.
- CHAPTER V.
- PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA.
- CHAPTER VI.
- PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA.
- CHAPTER VII.
- PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED, AND ALSO OF THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI.
- CHAPTER IX.
- PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, PLANTS, AND FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD.
- CHAPTER X.
- PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.
- CHAPTER XI.
- PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED PERU.
- CHAPTER XII.
- PARLEY DESCRIBES THE NATURAL BEAUTIES OF AMERICA.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS.
- CHAPTER XV.
- PARLEY TELLS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES.
- AUSTRALIA.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS, VEGETABLES, AND ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA—THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS—THE GOLD REGIONS—RECENT EXPLORATIONS
- CONCLUSION.
- THE END.
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