. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . DEXTER, W. DOUGLASS, R. EDEN, J. FROST, T. FULLER, A. GALLATIN, A. GALVANO, S. H. GAY, S. G. GOODRICH, F. GORGES, GREENHALGH, T. HARIOT, W. H. HARRISON, R. HAVVKINS, W. H. HAYNES, J. G. E. HECKEWELDER, W. H. HENING, W. W. HENRY, H. H. HOWORTH, J. HUNTER, T. JEFFERSON, LACTANTIUS, BARON LA HONTAN, R. LANE, R. LAUDONNIERE, P. LE JEUNE, C. G. LELAND, J. LEMOYNE DE MORGUES, F. LIEBER, G. H. LOSKIEL, J. Mc SHERRY, C. MALTE-BRUN
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . DEXTER, W. DOUGLASS, R. EDEN, J. FROST, T. FULLER, A. GALLATIN, A. GALVANO, S. H. GAY, S. G. GOODRICH, F. GORGES, GREENHALGH, T. HARIOT, W. H. HARRISON, R. HAVVKINS, W. H. HAYNES, J. G. E. HECKEWELDER, W. H. HENING, W. W. HENRY, H. H. HOWORTH, J. HUNTER, T. JEFFERSON, LACTANTIUS, BARON LA HONTAN, R. LANE, R. LAUDONNIERE, P. LE JEUNE, C. G. LELAND, J. LEMOYNE DE MORGUES, F. LIEBER, G. H. LOSKIEL, J. Mc SHERRY, C. MALTE-BRUN, J. J. MAREST, P. MARTYR, C. MATHER, P. MENENDEZ, MERCIER, L. H. MORGAN, N. MORTON, H. C. MURPHY, E. D. NEILL, K. F. NEUMANN, G F. DE OVIEDO v VALDES, PAGETT, C. H. de PARAVEY, J. PINKERTON, PLINY, L. B. PRINCE, T. PRINCE, S. PURCHAS, C. C. RAFN, G. B. RAMUSIO, S. RASLE, H. R. SCHOOLCRAFT, D. SETTLE, J. T. SHORT, J. H. SIMPSON, B. SMITH, JAS. SMITH, E. G. SQUIER, W^ STRACHEY, G. SUMNER, TORF^US, F. A. DE VARNHAGEN, D. VASCONCELLOS, E. P. VINING, M. W^ALDSEEMULLER, A. WHITAKER, E. M. Vi^INQFIELD, E. WINSLOW^ COPTRIOHT, 1904 By henry smith WILLIAMS All rights reserved. BOOK I THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD CHAPTER ITHE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA Venient annisScecula seris, quibus, OceatmsVincula, rerum taxet, et inyensPateal tellus, Tiphysque novosDeteyat Orhes, nee sit ierrisUltima Thule. Seneca: Medea. If the Europeans had never happened upon America, then at some period— far later, indeed, yet inevitable — the Americans would have discoveredEurope. Perhaps they would have come down from behuid the horizon withall the sudden, barbaric pomp and terror that marked the appearance of theGauls at Romes gates, of the Tatars in China, of the Hmis on the French plamof Chalons, of the Moslems In Granada and round Constantinople, of theNorthmen in Sicily, of the Portuguese in India, of the Spanish at the court ofMontezuma and in Peru. These famous lines have been regarded as a prophecy of th
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