A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels. Volume III

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Robert Kerr

Series: Political Science and History
BISAC: HIS037000

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land. In determining upon an era for the commencement of this work, Kerr was led, from a consideration of the accidental discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians in the ninth century, to adopt that period as the beginning of the series, both because the commencement of modern maritime discovery took place during the reign of a British sovereign, and because we derive the earliest written accounts of any of these discoveries from the pen of that excellent prince. It is true that the first accidental discovery of Iceland appears to have been made in 861, eleven years before the accession of Alfred to the throne; yet, as the actual colonization of that island did not take place till the year 878, the seventh of his glorious reign, we have been induced to distinguish the actual commencement of maritime discovery by the modern European nations as coinciding with his era.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
PART II.–(Continued.)
BOOK II. HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, AND OF SOME OF THE EARLY CONQUESTS IN THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER I. History of the discovery of America, by Christopher Columbus, written by his son Don Ferdinand Columbus, Introduction, Epochs of American discovery, Authors Preface.
CHAPTER II. Account of the Discovery of America, by Christopher Columbus; by Antonio de Herrera.
CHAPTER III. The voyages of Americus Vespucius to the New World.
CHAPTER IV. Summary of the discoveries and settlements of the Spaniards in the West Indies, from the death of Columbus to the expedition of Hernando Cortes against Mexico, Introduction.
CHAPTER V. History of the discovery and conquest of Mexico, written in the year 1568,
by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the conquerors, I
Index

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