E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from images generously made available by the University of Florida and the Internet Archive/Children's Library Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16891-h.htm or 16891-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/8/9/16891/16891-h/16891-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/8/9/16891/16891-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Florida Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. (Preservation and Access for American and British Children's Literature, 1850-1869.) See http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=juv&idno=UF00003253&format=jpg or http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=juv&idno=UF00003253&format=pdf TALES ABOUT AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA. by PETER PARLEY. A New Edition, Brought Down to the Present Time. Revised by The Rev. T. Wilson. With Illustrations by S. Williams. London: Darton and Hodge, Holborn Hill. 1862. CONTENTS. PAGE PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED, AND ABOUT COLUMBUS 1 PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS 12 COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS A DREADFUL STORM 21 COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE 35 PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA 45 PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA 59 PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED, AND OF HIS DEATH 65 PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI 73 PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD 79 PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO 96 PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED PERU 121 PARLEY DESCRIBES THE BEAUTIES OF AMERICA 133 PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA 141 PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS 150 PARLEY SHOWS HOW THE UNITED STATES AROSE, AND WHAT FOLLOWED THEIR ESTABLISHMENT 165 PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES 176 PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS OF AUSTRALIA--THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS--THE GOLD REGIONS--RECENT EXPLORATIONS 183 CONCLUSION 205 CHAPTER I.