A Book of American Explorers

Name: A Book of American Explorers
Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

America -- Discovery and exploration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Cabot and Verrazzano, 53‒70.
      John, 55.
      J. Elliot, 2.
      Sebastian, 56‒59.
    Cabeza de Vaca, Voyage of, 71‒96.
    Canada, The French in, 97‒118, 267.
    Cape Cod visited by Standish, 312.
    Caribbees, The, 21, 23, 28, 29, 35, 39, 50.
    Cartier, Jacques, 58, 97‒118.
    Carver, Governor, 319, 337.
    Cassen, George, 237, 238.
    Castillo, Alonzo del, 77, 90.
    Champlain, Samuel de, on the war-path, 267‒278.
    Chanca, Dr., 26.
    Charlesfort, 148, 149, 152.
    Chemin, John du, 165.
    Children, Indian, 251.
    Clap, Captain Roger, 339, 358‒361.
    Clement, Francis, 301.
    Cleveland, H. R., 280.
    Cogswell, J. G., 54.
    Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner,” 83.
    Coligny, Admiral De, 143.
    Colman, John, 284.
    Colonies in New England, unsuccessful, 201‒228.
    Colonies, The lost, of Virginia, 175‒200.
    Colonists in Virginia, Smith’s description of, 234.
    Colony, Massachusetts Bay, 339‒362.
      Plymouth, 225, 309‒338.
      Popham, 223.
      Virginia (first), 186;
        (second) 189;
        Captain John Smith’s, 229‒263.
    Columbus, Christopher, Letters of, 19‒39;
      appeal of in his old age, 51;
      and his companions, 17‒52.
    Columbus, Diego, 51.
    Company, London, 222.
      Massachusetts Bay, 341.
      Plymouth, 222.
      West India, 303.
    Cooke, Captain, 198.
    Coppin, Master, 326.
    Corn, Indian, Profitableness of, 348.
    Couexis, King, 150.
    Croatoan, 192, 193, 197.
    Crol, S. J., 305.
    Cudruaigny, 110.


                                  D.

    Danusco, John, 136.
    Dare, Ananias, 194.
      Eleanor, 194.
      Virginia, 194, 200.
    Davies, James, 223.
      Captain Richard, 223.
      Captain Robert, 223, 224.
    De Costa, B. F., 9.
    De Soto, Ferdinando, 96, 119, 140.
    Digby, 224.
    Domagaia, 105, 106, 109, 110.
    Donnacona, 105, 106, 107, 110.
    Dorantes, Andres, 77, 90.
    Drake, Sir Francis, 187.
    Dudley, Governor, 357.
    Dunkirkers, 355.
    Dutch chronicles of the New Netherlands, 303‒308.


                                  E.

    Earth of New England, The, 347.
    Earthly paradise, The, 26.
    Eirek, the Red, 312.
    Endicott, Governor John, 341, 345, 346.
    Escobar, 40.


                                  F.

    Fabian, Robert, 56.
    Faner, Sidrack, 302.
    Ferdinand and Isabella, 18, 25, 27, 37, 51, 52.
    Ferdinando, 190, 191.
    Ferdinando, Simon, 179.
    Fire of New England, The, 352.
    “First encounter,” The, of Pilgrims, 319.
    Fish in New England, 350.
    Florida visited, 73, 125, 141.
    Francis I. (of France), 60, 99, 103.
    Frederycke, Master Kryn, 305.
    French in Canada, The, 97‒118;
      in Florida, The, 141‒212.


                                  G.

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