Chapter V

Territorial privileges of Portugal and Spain. A line of
demarkation designated by Pope Alexander VI. The East and
the West Indies. Columbus’s second voyage. The Caribbees.
The Villa de la Navidad burned. The town of Isabela built.
Further explorations of the coast of Cuba. Depositions taken
that Columbus had reached the dominions of the Grand Khan.
The _cemies_ of the people of Española. The homeward voyage.
Ignorance of pilots respecting latitude and longitude.
Columbus’s compasses. Amerigo Vespucci’s first voyage to the
New World. Lands on the coast of South America. Describes
the natives. The country of Lariab. Columbus’s third voyage.
He surveys the continent. Explores the coast of La Tierra de
Gracia. Amerigo Vespucci’s second voyage. Sails along the
north coast of South America. Traffics for pearls with the
natives. Returns to Cadiz. Columbus’s last voyage. The edifices
of Veragua. The evidences of civilization. Writes that he
reached the province of Mango, contiguous to Cathay. Dies at
Valladolid. His nautical chart. Juan de la Cosa’s great ox-hide
map 145-185

CHAPTER VI.

England sends ships to search for a navigable way to the
Indies. The first voyage of Giovanni Caboto. Pasqualigo’s
account of it. Discovery of the territory of the Grand Khan.
The flag of England and that of St. Mark planted on the coast
of the new country. Prima Tierra Vista. The island of St.
John. Caboto’s second voyage. The dispatches of Pedro de Ayala
to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. The voyages
of Sebastiano Caboto. His explorations along the coast of
Labrador. La Tierra de los Bacallaos. Sebastiano Caboto’s maps
and manuscripts 186-204

CHAPTER VII.

The Portuguese reach the Indies. Land of the Holy Cross
discovered by Pedro Alvarez Cabral. Gaspar Cortereal’s voyages.
Letter of Pietro Pasqualigo. Terra Verde. Amerigo Vespucci’s
third and fourth voyages along the east coast of South America.
Johann Ruysch’s map. Martin Waldseemüller’s suggestion. The
name of America. A fountain of vivific water. Juan Ponce de
Leon explores the coast of Florida. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
beholds the Pacific Ocean. The coast of Yucatan explored by
Francisco Hernando de Cordoba. The discoveries of Juan de
Grijalva. The country of New Spain. The expedition of Hernando
Cortes. The magnificent presents sent him by Montezuma. The
populated provinces of Mexico. Great cities. Large temples.
Decorated idols. Cortes enters the city of Mexico. Its palaces,
markets, and arsenals. The horrible sacrifices of the Mexicans.
The siege of the city 205-274

CHAPTER VIII.

The discoveries of Alonso Alvarez de Pineda. The project of
Francisco de Garay. An unfortunate undertaking. The discovery
of the Mississippi River. The jurisdictions of Juan Ponce
de Leon and Francisco de Garay. Another exploration of a
part of the coast of North America. Chicora. Duharhe. Tall
people. Habits of the natives. Tierra de Ayllon. The voyage of
Fernam de Magalhaens. Discovery of the Strait of the Eleven
Thousand Virgins. The Pacific Ocean. The Moluccas or Spice
Islands reached. Voyage of Juan Sebastian del Cano. The earth
circumnavigated. The congress of Badajos 275-296