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Contents

• INTRODUCTION FOR TEACHERS . . . . . . . . ix
• PART I
  DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . . . . . . . . . 1
• PART II
  ON THE SEA . . . . . . . . . . . 23
• PART III
  IN THE WILDERNESS . . . . . . . . . . 55
• PART IV
  BIG INDIANS AND LITTLE INDIANS. . . . . 91
• PART V
  HOW THE COLONIES GREW . . 133
• PART VI
  LITTLE FOLKS . . . . . . . . . . . 165
• PART VII
  COLONIAL SCHOOLS. . . 201

Descriptive List of Illustrations

• JOHN QUINCY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
  Grandfather of John Adams; when two years old; painted about 1687.
• A NORSE SHIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
  From old buried ships discovered in Scandinavia.
• COLUMBUS' SHIPS IN FACSIMILE . . . . . . . 5
  From a drawing of 1493, supposed to be by Columbus.
• THE DEPARTURE OF COLUMBUS . . . . . . . . . 9
  Drawn from imagination, and published in De Bry's "Voyages," 1594
• A SPANIARD IN ARMOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
  Portrait of Hernando Cortez, Conqueror of Mexico.
• ESQUIMAUX CHILDREN . . . . . . . . . . . 20
  From an old book of travels, 1577.
• A SHIP AT SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
  Ships of about 1570, showing high forecastle and aftercastle; from De Bry's "Voyages," 1592.
• A SHIP AMONG FLYING FISH . . . . . . . . 26
  From De Bry's "Voyages," 1592.
• INDIANS CANOEING . . . . . . . . . . . 29
  From De Bry's "Voyages," 1590.
• FREEBOOTERS' PASTIMES . . . . . . . . . 35
  Showing the cruelty and rapacity of the pirates; from De Bry's "Voyages"
• PORTRAIT OF A PIRATE . . . . . . . . . . 39
  A picture of Sir Henry Morgan, long the scourge of the Spanish settlements in the Caribbean Sea, from "Buccaniers of America."

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• AN INDIAN TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . 54
  A town on Roanoke Island, as seen by Hariot.
• AN INDIAN DANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
  As seen by Hariot in North Carolina.
• A BIG COLONIAL TREE . . . . . . . . . . 62
  "Big Ben," Lancaster, Massachusetts; about 30 feet in circumference and 110 feet high.
• THE SUPPOSED BUFFALO . . . . . . . . . . . 73
  As drawn, probably from descriptions, by Thevenet in his "Singularitez," 1558.
• THE REAL BUFFALO . . . . . . . . . . . 73
  Drawn by Audubon, the Naturalist.
• BEAVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
  From a museum.
• BEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
  From a museum.
• AN INDIAN BOY . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
  A Nambe water-carrier in Arizona; from the Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology.
• INDIAN WARRIORS . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
  European idea of what Indians looked like, when hunting in snow shoes. From Thevenet's "Singularitez," 1558.
• POCAHONTAS . . . . . . . . . . . 98
  From an old portrait of the Indian Princess.
• INDIAN WRITINGS . . . . . . . 108
  From the Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology.
• PIPE OF PEACE . . . . . . . . . . 116
  Two genuine calumets, used in Indian councils.
• WEAPONS OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
  An Indian tomahawk and a stone-headed club.

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• INDIAN MONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
  Belts made of wampum shell; on the left the peace-belt given to William Penn.
• AN INDIAN PAPOOSE . . . . . . . . . . . 127
  An Ojibway squaw; drawn in 1837.
• THE FAIRBANKS HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . 132
  At Dedham, Massachusetts; oldest house in New England; still occupied by a descendant of the original family.
• A SOLDIER'S OUTFIT . . . . . 138
  "Buff coat," of leather, Flint-lock musket, and Miles Standish's sword.
• NEW AMSTERDAM . . . . . . . . . 140
  Early Picture of the Dutch settlement on the site of New York, dated 1656.
• A NEW YORK LADY . . . . . . . . . . 142
  Member of the family of Governor Dongan, about 1680.
• WILLIAM PENN . . . . . . . . . . 146
  As a young courtier in armor; painted about 1670.
• A BLOCK-HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
  On the Kennebec River; built 1754.
• A COLONIAL KITCHEN . . . . . . . . . . . 154
  An imaginative picture based on actual colonial rooms arid furniture.
• EDWARD WINSLOW . . . . . . . . . 164
  Miniature taken at about five years old; Winslow grew up to be Governor of Plymouth.
• SIR WALTER RALEIGH . . . . . . . . . . . 169
  From a painting made about 1584.
• A COLONIAL CRADLE . . . . . . . . 172
  Dudley Cradle, in Massachusetts Historical Society.
• AN OLD DOLL. . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
  Preserved in Salem, Massachusetts.

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• AN OLD TOY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
  A little carriage made about 1800.
• A COLONIAL FAMILY . . . . . . . . . . . 180
  Children of Governor Gore of Massachusetts; painted about 1754 by Copley.
• COLONIAL PEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
  From church at Salisbury, New Hampshire, where Daniel Webster worshipped.
• FROM A COLONIAL PICTURE BOOK . . . . . . . . . 199
  Portrait of John Smith, chief founder of Virginia, from his "Generall Historie."
• A HORN BOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . 203
  Earliest form of school reader, covered with transparent horn to keep it from wearing out; from Tuer's "Horn Book."
• A SAMPLER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
  Every little girl was expected to work in embroidery something like this.
• COLONIAL HANDWRITING. . . . . . . . . . 206
  Various signatures of George Washington.
• A SCHOOLBOY'S TRUNK . . . . . . . . . . 211
  15 inches long; used by Ichabod Tucker when he went to college in 1711.
• THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER . . . . . . . . . . 213
  Used in many editions as a schoolbook for nearly a century in New England.
• IN SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
  Rude pictures from a school spelling-book, 1796.
• A COLONIAL SCHOOL GIRL . . . . . . . . . 223
  Mistress Campion, a four-year-old girl, with a horn book; painted 1661.
• IN A LIBRARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
  From a schoolbook published 1770.
• SCHOOL DAYS . . . . . . . . . . 231
  An English picture, showing horn book and rod.