1. Columbus at the Mouth of the Orinoco 2. A Norse Ship 3. Esquimau Boat 4. Dutch Man-of-War 5. Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella 6. Fleet of Columbus 7. Ship of the Fifteenth Century 8. Portrait of Verrazzano 9. Verrazzano in Newport Harbor 10. Indians making Canoes 11. Cabeza de Vaca building the Boat 12. Portrait of Jacques Cartier 13. Cartier raising a Cross on the St. Charles River 14. Indians trying to frighten Cartier 15. Portrait of De Soto 16. Landing of De Soto 17. Burial of De Soto 18. Indians in Canoe 19. Ribaut’s Pillar decorated by Indians 20. Fort Caroline 21. Portrait of Menendez 22. Indian Village in Virginia 23. Baptism of First Child in Virginia 24. The Explorers looking at the Tree 25. Palisaded Town 26. Gosnold’s Fort 27. Captain Weymouth sailing up the Penobscot 28. Portrait of James I. 29. Old Print of Smith’s Capture 30. Facsimile Illustration of Pocahontas saving the Life of Smith 31. Indian Dance 32. Cod-Fishing 33. Portrait of Pocahontas 34. Portrait of Champlain 35. Champlain on the War-Path 36. Hudson in the Highlands 37. Indians on Board “The Half-Moon” 38. Settlement on the Hudson River 39. Delph’s Haven 40. “The Mayflower” in Provincetown 41. Portrait of Governor Winslow 42. Sword of Standish 43. Sunday on Clark’s Island 44. Landing of Mary Chilton 45. Meeting of Captain Standish and Massasoit 46. Governor Carver’s Chair 47. Portrait of Francis Higginson 48. Governor Endicott 49. First Church in Salem 50. Old Planter’s House at Salem 51. Portrait of Governor Winthrop 52. Famine among the Pilgrims BOOK I. THE LEGENDS OF THE NORTHMEN. (A.D. 985‒1008.) THESE extracts are taken from two Icelandic works called _Tháttr Eireks Rauda_ (the piece about Eirek the Red) and _Graenlendinga Thátt_ (the piece about the Greenlanders). These passages were translated by J. Elliot Cabot, Esq., and were published in “The Massachusetts Quarterly Review” for March, 1849. It is now the general belief of historians, that these legends are mainly correct; and that the region described as Vinland was a part of the North-American Continent. Beyond this we do not know. The poet Whittier has written thus of these early explorers, in his poem called “The Norsemen:”――