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Title: Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia

Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Editor: Rev. T. Wilson

Release Date: October 17, 2005 [eBook #16891]

Language: English

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TALES ABOUT AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.

by

PETER PARLEY.

A New Edition,

Brought Down to the Present Time.

Revised by The Rev. T. Wilson.

With Illustrations by S. Williams.

London:
Darton and Hodge, Holborn Hill.
1862.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED,
AND ABOUT COLUMBUS 1

PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS 12

COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS
A DREADFUL STORM 21

COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE 35

PARLEY TELLS