Category: History - Other
Until the approach of the sixteenth century the South American continent, in so far as European knowledge was concerned, was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep that encompassed it. At that time the Spirit of God that moved upon the face of the wa...
We are all familiar with the names of certain English navigators with reference to Spanish South America; but it is somewhat difficult to introduce a notice of their deeds at th...
5. CHAPTER II.On the return of Columbus to Europe after his fourth and last voyage, King Ferdinand was roused by the accounts which he gave of _Veragua_ into an ardent longing to possess that...
11. CHAPTER VII.Pizarro, on his return to Spain, found the Emperor Charles V. at Toledo, and met with a gracious reception. The court listened with eagerness to his adventures by sea and land,...
8. CHAPTER IV.The history of the northern coast of South America, from the Gulf of _Paria_ to the Isthmus of _Darien_, is intimately connected with the history of slavery during the century w...
15. CHAPTER XI.The aged lieutenant of Gonzalo Pizarro, Carbajal, gave him perhaps the wisest advice when he urged him to renounce his allegiance; pointing out that in point of fact he had alre...
4. CHAPTER I.Until the approach of the sixteenth century the South American continent, in so far as European knowledge was concerned, was without form and void, and darkness was upon the fac...
14. CHAPTER X.The conspirators who had assassinated Pizarro succeeded in securing possession of _Lima_, and their next step was at once to send to the different cities proclaiming the revolut...
9. CHAPTER V.In the year 1499, Vicente Yañez Pinzon, of Palos, one of the three brothers who had sailed with Columbus in his first voyage seven years previously, obtained from the king of Ca...
18. CHAPTER XIV._Don_ Francisco Villagran returned to _Chili_ under the flattering belief that the Araucanians would give him no more trouble; and he accordingly turned his attention to the rea...
20. CHAPTER XVI.The town of _Buenos Ayres_, once permanently established, soon became a considerable place; and that notwithstanding its incommodious and unsafe harbour. Forty years after its f...
19. CHAPTER XV.The growth of the colony of _Brazil_ had been so rapid during the fourteen years’ able administration of Mem de Sa that it was now thought advisable to divide its territory into...
7. ill. The provisions which had been brought out were now exhausted, andthe horrors of famine stared the whole colony in the face. In this gloomy state of affairs Pedrarias was glad to give permission to a ship-load of starving adventurers to depart...
13. CHAPTER IX.In following the progress of discovery in South America it is necessary to turn to another direction. The main centres from which discoveries were made may for general purposes...
10. CHAPTER VI.Under the pressure of the immense excitement which resulted from the discoveries of Columbus, the entire eastern coast of the American continent, from _Labrador_ in the north to...
16. CHAPTER XII.The Araucanians inhabit the delightful region between the _Andes_ and the sea, and between the rivers _Bío-bío_ and _Valdivia_. They derive the appellation of Araucanians from t...
12. CHAPTER VIII.The authentic history of _Chili_, according to the _Abbé_ Molina, does not go further back than to about the fifteenth century. The earliest accounts of the Chilians are contain...
17. CHAPTER XIII.On learning the death of Lautaro, Caupolican gave up the siege of _Imperial_ and returned with his army to defend the frontiers of _Araucania_ from the renewed invasion which he...
6. CHAPTER III.Once more at _Darien_, Vasco Nuñez lost no time in drawing up for the king a report of his expedition across the mountains to the Southern Sea, in which report he states that du...
3. CHAPTER XVII.1. CHAPTER III.2. CHAPTER IV.