Contents and Illustrations

[The Spanish arms on the title are copied from the titlepage of Herrera.]

INTRODUCTION.

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Documentary Sources of Early Spanish-American History. The Editor i

CHAPTER I.

Columbus and his Discoveries. The Editor

Illustrations: Columbus’ Armor, ; Parting of Columbus with Ferdinand and Isabella, ; Early Vessels, ; Building a Ship, ; Course of Columbus on his First Voyage, ; Ship of Columbus’ Time, ; Native House in Hispaniola, ; Curing the Sick, ; The Triumph of Columbus, ; Columbus at Hispaniola, ; Handwriting of Columbus, ; Arms of Columbus, ; Fruit-trees of Hispaniola, ; Indian Club, ; Indian Canoe, , ; Columbus at Isla Margarita, ; Early Americans, ; House in which Columbus died, .

Critical Essay

Illustrations: Ptolemy, , ; Albertus Magnus, ; Marco Polo, ; Columbus’ Annotations on the Imago Mundi, ; on Æneas Sylvius, ; the Atlantic of the Ancients, ; Prince Henry the Navigator, ; his Autograph, ; Sketch-map of Portuguese Discoveries in Africa, ; Portuguese Map of the Old World (1490), ; Vasco da Gama and his Autograph, ; Line of Demarcation (Map of 1527), ; Pope Alexander VI., .

Notes

A, First Voyage, ; B, Landfall, ; C, Effect of the Discovery in Europe, ; D, Second Voyage, ; E, Third Voyage, ; F, Fourth Voyage, ; G, Lives and Notices of Columbus, ; H, Portraits of Columbus, ; I, Burial and Remains of Columbus, ; J, Birth of Columbus, and Accounts of his Family, .

Illustrations: Fac-simile of first page of Columbus’ Letter, No. III., ; Cut on reverse of Title of Nos. V. and VI., ; Title of No. VI., ; The Landing of Columbus, ; Cut in German Translation of the First Letter, ; Text of the German Translation, ; the Bahama Group (map), ; Sign-manuals of Ferdinand and Isabella, ; Sebastian Brant, ; Map of Columbus’ Four Voyages, , ; Fac-simile of page in the Glustiniani Psalter, ; Ferdinand Columbus’ Register of Books, ; Autograph of Humboldt, ; Paulus Jovius, . Portraits of Columbus,—after Giovio, ; the Yanez Portrait, ; after Capriolo, ; the Florence picture, ; the De Bry Picture, ; the Jomard Likeness, ; the Havana Medallion, ; Picture at Madrid, ; after Montanus, ; Coffer and Bones found in Santo Domingo, ; Inscriptions on and in the Coffer, , ; Portrait and Sign-manual of Ferdinand of Spain, ; Bartholomew Columbus, .

Postscript

THE EARLIEST MAPS OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES. The Editor

Illustrations: Early Compass, ; Astrolabe of Regiomontanus, ; Later Astrolabe, ; Jackstaff, ; Backstaff, ; Pirckeymerus, ; Toscanelli’s Map, ; Martin Behaim, ; Extract from Behaim’s Globe, ; Part of La Cosa’s Map, ; of the Cantino Map, ; Peter Martyr Map (1511), ; Ptolemy Map (1513), ; Admiral’s Map (1513), ; Reisch’s Map (1515), ; Ruysch’s Map (1508), ; Stobnicza’s Map (1512), ; Schöner, ; Schöner’s Globe (1515), ; (1520), ; Tross Gores (1514-1519), ; Münster’s Map (1532), ; Sylvanus’ Map (1511), ; Lenox Globe, ; Da Vinci Sketch of Globe, , , ; Carta Marina of Frisius (1525), ; Coppo’s Map (1528), .

CHAPTER II.

Amerigo Vespucci. Sydney Howard Gay

Illustrations: Fac-simile of a Letter of Vespucci, ; Autograph of Amerrigo Vespuche, ; Portraits of Vespucci, , , .

NOTES ON VESPUCIUS AND THE NAMING OF AMERICA. The Editor

Illustrations: Title of the Jehan Lambert edition of the Mundus Novus, ; first page of Vorsterman’s Mundus Novus, ; Title of De Ora Antarctica, ; title of Von der neu gefunden Region, ; Fac-simile of its first page, ; Ptolemy’s World, ; Title of the Cosmographiæ Introductio, ; Fac-simile of its reference to the name of America, ; the Lenox Globe (American parts), ; Title of the 1509 edition of the Cosmographiæ Introductio, ; title of the Globus Mundi, ; Map of Laurentius Frisius in the Ptolemy of 1522, ; American part of the Mercator Map of 1541, ; Portrait of Apianus, .

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POMPONIUS MELA, SOLINUS, VADIANUS, AND APIANUS. The Editor

Illustrations: Pomponius Mela’s World, ; Vadianus, ; Part of Apianus’ Map (1520), ; Apianus, .

CHAPTER III.

The Companions of Columbus. Edward Channing

Illustrations: Map of Hispaniola, ; Castilia del Oro, ; Cartagena, ; Balbóa, ; Havana, .

Critical Essay

THE EARLY CARTOGRAPHY OF THE GULF OF MEXICO AND ADJACENT PARTS. The Editor

Illustrations: Map of the Pacific (1518), ; of the Gulf of Mexico (1520), ; by Lorenz Friess (1522), ; by Maiollo (1527), ; by Nuño Garcia de Toreno (1527), ; by Ribero (1529), ; The so-called Lenox Woodcut (1534), ; Early French Map, ; Gulf of Mexico (1536), ; by Rotz (1542), ; by Cabot (1544), ; in Ramusio (1556), ; by Homem (1558), ; by Martines (1578), ; of Cuba, by Wytfliet (1597), .

CHAPTER IV.

Ancient Florida. John G. Shea

Illustrations: Ponce de Leon, ; Hernando de Soto, ; Autograph of De Soto, ; of Mendoza, ; Map of Florida (1565), ; Site of Fort Caroline, ; View of St. Augustine, ; Spanish Vessels, ; Building of Fort Caroline, ; Fort Caroline completed, ; Map of Florida (1591), ; Wytfliet’s Map (1597), .

Critical Essay

Illustrations: Map of Ayllon’s Explorations, ; Autograph of Narvaez, ; of Cabeza de Vaca, ; of Charles V., ; of Biedma, ; Map of the Mississippi (sixteenth century), ; Delisle’s Map, with the Route of De Soto, , .

CHAPTER V.

Las Casas, and the Relations of the Spaniards to the Indians. George E. Ellis

Critical Essay

Illustrations: Las Casas, ; his Autograph, ; Titlepages of his Tracts, , , ; Fac-simile of his Handwriting, .

Editorial Note

Illustrations: Autograph of Motolinia, ; Title of Oviedo’s Natural Hystoria (1526), ; Arms of Oviedo, ; his Autograph, ; Head of Benzoni, .

CHAPTER VI.

Cortés and his Companions. The Editor

Illustrations: Velasquez, ; Cannon of Cortés’ time, ; Helps’s Map of Cortés’ Voyage, ; Cortés and his Arms, ; Gabriel Lasso de la Vega, ; Cortés, ; Map of the March of Cortés, ; Cortés, ; Montezuma, , ; Map of Mexico before the Conquest, ; Pedro de Alvarado, ; his Autograph, ; Helps’s Map of the Mexican Valley, ; Tree of Triste Noche, ; Charles V., , ; his Autograph, ; Wilson’s Map of the Mexican Valley, ; Jourdanet’s Map of the Valley, colored, ; Mexico under the Conquerors, ; Mexico according to Ramusio, ; Cortés in Jovius, ; his Autograph, ; Map of Guatemala and Honduras, ; Autograph of Sandoval, ; his Portrait, ; Cortés after Herrera, ; his Armor, ; Autograph of Fuenleal, ; Map of Mexico after Herrera, ; Acapulco, ; Full-length Portrait of Cortés, ; Likeness on a Medal, .

Critical Essay

Notes

Illustrations: Cortés before Charles V., ; Cortés’ Map of the Gulf of Mexico, ; Title of the Latin edition of his Letters (1524), ; Reverse of its Title, ; Portrait of Clement VII., ; Autograph of Gayangos, ; Lorenzana’s Map of Spain, ; Title of De insulis nuper inventis, ; Title of Gomara’s Historia (1553), ; Autograph of Bernal Diaz, ; of Sahagun, ; Portrait of Solis, ; Portrait of William H. Prescott, .

DISCOVERIES ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA. The Editor

Illustrations: Map from the Sloane Manuscripts (1530), ; from Ruscelli (1544), ; Nancy Globe, ; from Ziegler’s Schondia (1532), ; Carta Marina (1548), ; Vopellio’s Map (1556), ; Titlepage of Girava’s Cosmographia, ; Furlani’s Map (1560), ; Map of the Pacific (1513), ; Cortés’ Map of the California Peninsula, ; Castillo’s Map of the California Gulf (1541), ; Map by Homem (1540), ; by Cabot (1544), ; by Freire (1546), ; in Ptolemy (1548), ; by Martines (155-?), ; by Zaltieri (1566), ; by Mercator (1569), ; by Porcacchi (1572), ; by Furlani (1574), ; from Molineaux’ Globe (1592), ; a Spanish Galleon, ; Map of the Gulf of California by Wytfliet (1597), ; of America by Wytfliet (1597), ; of Terre de Iesso, ; of the California Coast by Dudley (1646), ; Diagram of Mercator’s Projection, .

CHAPTER VII.

Early Explorations of New Mexico. Henry W. Haynes

Illustrations: Autograph of Coronado, ; Map of his Explorations, ; Early Drawings of the Buffalo, , .

Critical Essay

Editorial Note

CHAPTER VIII.

Pizarro, and the Conquest and Settlement of Peru and Chili. Clements R. Markham

Illustrations: Indian Rafts, ; Sketch-maps of the Conquest of Peru, , ; picture of Embarkation, ; Ruge’s Map of Pizarro’s Discoveries, ; Native Huts in Trees, ; Atahualpa, , ; Almagro, ; Plan of Ynca Fortress near Cusco, ; Building of a Town, ; Gabriel de Rojas, ; Sketch-map of the Conquest of Chili, ; Pedro de Valdivia, , ; Pastene, ; Pizarro, , ; Vaca de Castro, ; Pedro de la Gasca, , ; Alonzo de Alvarado, ; Conception Bay, ; Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, ; Peruvians worshipping the Sun, ; Cusco, ; Temple of Cusco, ; Wytfliet’s Map of Peru, ; of Chili, ; Sotomayor, ; Title of the 1535 Xeres, .

Critical Essay

Editorial Notes

THE AMAZON AND ELDORADO. The Editor

Illustrations: Gonzalo Ximenes de Quesada, ; Sketch-map, ; Castellanos, ; Map of the Mouths of the Orinoco, ; De Laet’s Map of Parime Lacus, .

CHAPTER IX.

Magellan’s Discovery. Edward E. Hale

Illustrations: Autograph of Magellan, ; Portraits of Magellan, , , ; Indian Beds, ; South American Cannibals, ; Giant’s Skeleton at Porto Desire, ; Quoniambec, ; Pigafetta’s Map of Magellan’s Straits, ; Chart of the Pacific, showing Magellan’s Track, ; Pigafetta’s Map of the Ladrones, .

Critical Essay

INDEX