Page 4, line 10, _for_ voyage _read_ voyages. 5, 10 from bottom, _for_ Sierro _read_ Sierra. 7, 19, _for_ fairo _read_ fair. 9, 22, _after_ among _insert_ the. 11, 12, _for_ coup _read_ loup. 16, 13, _for_ Lasson _read_ Lagoon. 8 from bottom, _for_ Ekanfanska _read_ Ekanfanoga. 48, 15 from bottom, _for_ Montezey _read_ Monterey. last _after_ coasts substitute a _comma_ for the _semicolon_, and _after_ ports substitute a _semicolon_ for the _comma_. 54, 2 from bottom, _for_ wine _read_ vine. 104, 7, _for_ basis _read_ bases. 108, 4 from bottom, _for_ chieftain _read_ chieftains. 111, 13 from bottom, _for_ Euatlachtlan _read_ Cuetlachtlan. 129, 13, _after_ Mexico substitute a _comma_ for the _period_, and _after_ Popocatepetl insert a _period_. 141, 2, _read_ “province, as the Popocatepetl is more elevated.” 163, 3, _for_ CHOLETUCA _read_ CHOLUTECA. 166, 3, _for_ Saine _read_ same. 238, 14 from bottom, _for_ John Morgan, _read_ Henry Morgan. 247, 4, _for_ Lorzaro _read_ Lazaro. PART I. NORTH AMERICAN DOMINIONS. SPANISH AMERICA. PART I. NORTH AMERICAN DOMINIONS. ERA OF DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION. The discovery of the New World, has caused more discussion, arising from interest, curiosity and scientific motives, during a period of nearly three centuries, than any anterior extension of geographical knowledge, in the annals of mankind. Numberless have been the disputes concerning the probable duration, formation and population of that vast continent; as well as on the identity of the individual, who fortuitously opened that immeasurable region and wonderful country to the admiring eyes of his brethren of the eastern hemisphere. This work professing solely to relate, from authentic documents, what regards that portion of the New World which is claimed by Spain, either by right of conquest or discovery, we shall, consequently, not touch upon any of those indeterminate questions: therefore, whatever may be the notions respecting voyages prior to those of Columbus, having been performed by European navigators, it is universally admitted that CRISTOVAL COLON, or as he is usually called CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, was the first who made the existence of America generally known; accordingly we shall take our dates from the era of his discovery of the western world.