[Transcriber's Notes]

The HTML and TXT formats discard page boundaries but retain the year
references in square brackets. Thus [1492-1495] indicate the following
text covers this period, until the next such appearance.

Several books on Columbus are available at Gutenberg.org, including "The
Life of Columbus" by Arthur Helps.

A pound sterling in 1600 is worth about 135 pounds or 235 Dollars US in
2006.

Here are some unfamiliar (to me) terms.

camlets
  Rich cloth of Asian origin, made of camel's hair and silk andlater
  made of goat's hair and silk or other combinations. A garmentmade
  from this cloth.

contumacy
  Stubborn perverseness or rebelliousness; obstinate resistance to
  authority.

druggets
  Heavy felted fabric of wool or wool and cotton, used as a floor
  covering.

escheated
  Reversion of property to the state in the absence of legal heirsor
  claimants.

fee simple
  An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without
  limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) orlimited to
  a particular class of heirs (fee tail).

glebe
  Plot of land yielding profit to an English parish church or an
  ecclesiastical office.

Pascua Florida
  Feast of flowers; Easter.

quit rent
  A land tax imposed on freehold or leased land by a landowning
  authority, freeing the tenant of a holding from otherobligations.

New Style (dates)
  Describing dates after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.Various
  nations adopted the Gregorian calendar between 1582 and 1752.

Old Style (dates)
  Describing dates before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.

pompion
  Pumpkin.

sedulous
  Diligent in application or attention; persevering.

settle
  Long wooden bench with a high back, often including storage space
  beneath the seat.

[End Transcriber's Notes.]



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES


Columbus
After a Portrait by Herrer.



HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES
FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERY OF
AMERICA TO THE PRESENT TIME


BY
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY


With 650 Illustrations and Maps


VOLUME I.


NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1912


COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS





TO MY WIFE



PREFACE

Notwithstanding the number of United States histories already in
existence, and the excellence of many of them, I venture to think that
no apology is needed for bringing forward another.

1. The work now presented to the public is believed to utilize, more
than any of its predecessors, the many valuable researches of recent
years into the rich archives of this and other nations.

2. Most of the briefer treatments of the subject are manuals, intended
for pupils in schools, the conspicuous articulation so necessary for
this purpose greatly lessening their interest for the general reader.
The following narrative will be found continuous as well as of moderate
compass.

3. I have sought to make more prominent than popular histories have

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