A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . entsense to see that it was to their interest to treat the Indians justly. These jDCople,although armed only witii ^juws and arrows, atwhichthe Spaniards laughed, stilloutnumbered them a thousandfold and could crush them by the simple force ofnumbers. Besides, they were always provided withS^^^^!^ ^^f%^ fo(xl, which they were eager to give to their pale-faced -Yft? brothers, who were often unable to obt
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . entsense to see that it was to their interest to treat the Indians justly. These jDCople,although armed only witii ^juws and arrows, atwhichthe Spaniards laughed, stilloutnumbered them a thousandfold and could crush them by the simple force ofnumbers. Besides, they were always provided withS^^^^!^ ^^f%^ fo(xl, which they were eager to give to their pale-faced -Yft? brothers, who were often unable to obtain it, but^ ^ whose vicious nature would not permit them to bemanly and just.^\tr\I/ Moieover, the Spaniards were crazy after gold, /„ . , iS: which they believed existed in many places in pro-\I-J£s^ cligious quantities. The sight of the yellow orna-^~S nients worn by the natives fired their cuj^idity, andthey inquired eagerly in the sign language where the ^ precious metal could be found. One of the Indians ;^^^ ^P,*^rt4 3-^^3 rejilied that six days tiavel westward would bring°*^ ^^ ^ ---^ them to the shores of a great sea, where gold was asplentiful as tlie pebbles on the CARAVELS OF CHHISTOPHEB COLUMBUS. (After au engraving iiubli>he<l in 15S4 DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC. riiis information, as may be believed, set theSiKiniards wild, and, engaging a number of the natives as guides, they plungedinto the hot, steaming forests, and pressed on until one day they came to the baseof a mountain, fiom the top of which the guides said the great sea could be made his men stay where they were while he climbed to the crest of themountain alone. This was on the 26th of September, 1513, and, as Balboalooked off to the westward, his eyes rested upon the Pacific Ocean, the mightiestbody of water on the globe. He had made a grand discovery, and one which led to the conquest ofINIexico and Peru and the C(jlonization of the western coast of our sent h
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