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Famous Discoverers and Explores of America / Their Voyages, Battles, and Hardships in Traversing and Conquering the Unknown Territories of a New World

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Charles H. L. Johnston
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About This Book

A collection of illustrated biographical sketches recounts the voyages and hardships of notable discoverers and explorers associated with the Americas. Each chapter concentrates on an individual figure, outlining major journeys, navigational challenges, encounters with native peoples, military and political episodes, and personal endurance in unfamiliar environments. The narratives combine adventure detail with concise historical context and occasional moral or practical consequences of exploration, and the volume concludes with an epilogue that reflects on the broader themes and continuing appeal of exploration.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Amerigo Vespucci (See page 45) Frontispiece
Leif Ericson 8
The Landing of Columbus 28
Amerigo Vespucci off the coast of Venezuela 48
Juan Ponce de Leon at the Fountain of Youth 80
Balboa taking possession of the Pacific Ocean in the name of the King of Spain 97
Capture by Cortés of the City of Mexico 178
The Death of Magellan 200
Giovanni Verrazano 208
Execution of the Inca of Peru 245
De Soto in the Florida Wilderness 256
Champlain in the Indian Battle 285
Henry Hudson in New York Harbor 317
Marquette and Joliet discovering the Mississippi River 369
La Salle at the mouth of the Mississippi River 397
Robert Edwin Peary 413

LEIF ERICSON:

THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO EXPLORE, AND
SETTLE IN, AMERICA.

“From Greenland’s icy mountains; from Iceland’s rocky shore,

We sailed the ship which forged ahead and ruddy oarsmen bore;

We found the wild grape growing; we scoured the river’s bed,

And chased the moose whose horns were broad, whose blood was rich and red.

Our axes felled the wild-wood, our spears the Skraelings slew,

We sank their round skin-barges as the cutting North Winds blew,

Over the wild waves rolling, back to the fiords of home,

We safely came to anchor,—but we’ll never cease to roam.”

Saga of the Vikings, 1000 a.d.