Pacific Ocean, Balboa discovers the, 32. Palliser, Captain, 271. Parker, Dr., 259. Pawnee Indians, 181, 234. Pearl fisheries, 150. Penn, William, 159–161. Pennsylvania, 160. Penobscot River, 82. Pensacola Harbor, discovery of, 41. Pensacola River, 164. Peoria Lake, 134. Pequod Indians, 153–156. Perez, 16, 17, 18, 23. Philadelphia, 161. Pictured Rocks, 123. Pigart, Claude, Jesuit missionary, 122, 123. Pike, Major, 176–183. Pike’s Peak, 235, 242. Pipe of Peace, 130, 131, 178, 227. Pittsburg, 162. Plymouth Company, 87, 88. Pocahontas, 75, 79. Pontchartrain, Lake, 164. Port Royal, 58. Portsmouth founded, 88. Potomac River, 75. Potawatomie Indians, 236. Powhatan, 75, 77. Providence founded, 102. Puritans, the, 89–91; Embarkation of, 92; First landing, 93; Land at Plymouth, 94; Threatened by Indians, 96; Settlements by, 99, 105. Quebec, 53, 112, 116. Quakers, 161. Railroads, 268, 271–275. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 64, 65, 67, 70. Red Cedar Lake, 180. Red River, 166, 169, 182. Red River of the North, 238. Rhode Island, 9. Ribault, John, 57–62. Rio Bravo de Norte, 183. Rio Grande River, 260. Roanoake Colony, 67–69. Rocky Mountains, 190, 193, 194, 234, 242–247, 256. Root Indians, 247. Rose’s Edward, conspiracy against Hunt, 228. Rupert, Prince, 208. Russian Exploration, 200. Sacramento, 256. Sacramento River, 253. Salle, Robert Cavalier de la, 133–136. Salmon, 219. Salt Lake, 236. Salt Lake City, 248, 256. San Diego, 146, 150. San Domingo, 22. San Francisco, 151, 240. San Xavier del Bac, ruins of, 149. Santa Fé, 184. Saskatchewan River, 137, 272. Savannah River, 158. Saybrook, 104, 156. Scalp dance, 264. Schoolcraft, Mr., 238, 239. Scotch colonists, 88. Seneca Indians, 116, 127, 133. Shawmut Point, 99. Ship Island, 164. Shoshone Indians, 187, 229, 247, 254, 256. Sierra Nevada Mountains, 251. Sioux Indians, 128, 134, 177, 185, 225, 238. Skraellings, 9. Slaves first landed at Jamestown, 79. Slave Lake, 217. Slave River, 217. Smith, Captain John, 72–78, 85. Smith, Captain, 210, 211. Smith, Joe, 255. Snake River, 230, 248. Snake Indians, 195, 196. Sothel, Seth, 158. Soto, Hernando de, 39, 46. South Pass, 245, 254. Southern Pacific Railway, 268. Spanish Explorations and Settlements, 30–48, 60–63, 140–146. Spanish power in Mexico, Overthrow of, 152. Standish, Captain Miles, 93, 97, 98. Stansbury, Captain, 256. Steck, Dr., 258. Stewart family, Murder of, 268. Stone, Captain, murder of, 152. St. Anthony’s Falls, 134. St. Augustine, 62. St. John’s River, 57. St. Lawrence, Gulf of, 29, 52. St. Lawrence River, 52, 112–118, 178, 237, 238. St. Louis, 131, 135, 225. St. Mary’s, 81. Superior, Lake, 123. Sutter’s Fort, 240, 253. Swedish colonists, 110.