Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 200 original illustrations. See 50801-h.htm or 50801-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50801/50801-h/50801-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50801/50801-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/narrcrithistamerica01winsrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: M^o). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: 540.7^{mm}). NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Aboriginal America NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society VOL. I Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1889, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. [Illustration] To CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, LL. D. PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. _DEAR ELIOT:_ _Forty years ago, you and I, having made preparation together, entered college on the same day. We later found different spheres in the world; and you came back to Cambridge in due time to assume your high office. Twelve years ago, sought by you, I likewise came, to discharge a duty under you._ _You took me away from many cares, and transferred me to the more congenial service of the University. The change has conduced to the progress of those studies in which I hardly remember to have had a lack of interest._ _So I owe much to you; and it is not, I trust, surprising that I desire to connect, in this work, your name with that of your_ _Obliged friend_, [Illustration] CAMBRIDGE, 1889. CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. [_The cut on the title represents a mask, which forms the centre of the Mexican Calendar Stone, as engraved in D. Wilson’s Prehistoric Man, i. 333, from a cast now in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland._] INTRODUCTION. PART I. AMERICANA IN LIBRARIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES. _The Editor_ i ILLUSTRATIONS: Portrait of Professor Ebeling, iii; of James Carson Brevoort, x; of Charles Deane, xi. PART II. EARLY DESCRIPTIONS OF AMERICA, AND COLLECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THE EARLY VOYAGES THERETO. _The Editor_ xix