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The present work is the outcome of two lines of study pursued, with more or less interruption from other studies, for about thirty years. It will be observed that the book has two themes, as different in character as the themes for voice and piano in Schubert's "Frühlingsglaube," and yet so closely related that the one is needful for an adequate comprehension of the other. In order to view in their true perspective the series of events comprised in the Discovery of America, one needs to form a mental picture of that strange world of savagery and barbarism to which civilized Europeans were for the. | Discovery of America Vol. 1 of 2 by John Fiske 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. Discovery of America Vol. 1 of 2 by John Fiske Project Gutenberg s The Discovery of America Vol. 1 of 2 by John Fiske This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Discovery of America Vol. 1 of 2 with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Author John Fiske Release Date November 13 2008 EBook 27253 Language English Discovery of America Vol. 1 of 2 by John Fiske 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Produced by Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s note Obvious printer s errors have been corrected all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author s spelling has been maintained. Unusual superscripts are shown as A xx . wA ch for which. Description of the characters not found in the Unicode tables a a with macron. e e with macron. i i with macron. o o with macron. u u with macron. i i with breve. -p p with stroke. m m with tilde. p p with tilde. q q with tilde. z ezh. u u with ring. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT AMERICA AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST BY JOHN FISKE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. Then I unbar the doors my paths lead out The exodus of nations I disperse Men to all shores that front the hoary main. I too have arts and sorceries Illusion dwells forever with the wave. I make some coast alluring some lone isle To distant men who must go there or die. EMERSON Illustration Editor s arm. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1897 Copyright 1892 By JOHN FISKE. All