The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

CHAPTER III. PAGES 31-46.

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SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For various topics in connection with Sir Walter Raleigh and Captain John Smith, see the Index to Fiske's _Old Virginia and her Neighbours_. Incidents in the Life of Captain John Smith: see John Esten Cooke's _Virginia_ (American Commonwealth Series), pp. 22-76. The Story of Pocahontas, Cooke's _Virginia_, pp. 35-103.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Towle's _Raleigh, his Voyages and Adventures_; Cooke's _Stories of the Old Dominion_; Eggleston's and Seelye's _Pocahontas_ (Ajax Series).

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Towle's _Magellan, or the First Voyage Round the World_.

CHAPTERS IV AND V. PAGES 47-72.

THE PILGRIMS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Many topics in connection with this chapter may be selected from Fiske's _The Beginnings of New England_, as, The Separatists, p. 66; Why the Pilgrims did not stay in Holland, p. 74; Voyage of the Mayflower, p. 80; The Pilgrims and the Indians, p. 83.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Griffis's _The Pilgrims and their Three Homes_; Moore's _Pilgrims and Puritans_; Abbott's _Captain Miles Standish_ (Ajax Series); Drake's _On Plymouth Rock_; Bacon's _Historic Pilgrimages in New England_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Jane G. Austin's _Standish of Standish_, _Betty Alden_, _Nameless Nobleman_, and _David Alden's Daughter_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Mrs. Hemans's _Landing of the Pilgrims_; Longfellow's _Courtship of Miles Standish_; Bryant's _Twenty-Second of December_; Holmes's _The Pilgrim's Vision_.