PREFACE. DISCOVERY." In every instance the narrative is at first hand, or nearly so. And in every instance the effort has been made to throw the reader back to the volumes, now generally accessible in Public Libraries, where he can learn more. With many thanks to kind advisers who express the wish that I had written all the stories myself, I have only to say that the precise object of the series would thus have been avoided. The object is to arouse in young readers an interest in the wide range of narrative literature open to them in their own language, for the centuries since that language was born. EDWARD E. HALE. ROXBURY, Nov. 1, 1882. Navigation and Voyage which Fernando de Ma- gelhães made from Seville to Maluco in the The World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, carefully collected out of the Notes of Master Francis Fletcher, Preacher in this Imploy- 59 86 The Verrazzano Letter, 108. The Return of Sir Humfrey Gilbert, August, 1583, 120. Bartho- lomew Gosnoll and Martha's Vineyard, 127. 107. An Encounter with the Islanders, in Captain Carteret's Voyage, 149. Matavai, 152. A From Parry's Voyage of 1819, 169. Discovery of Prince Regent's Inlet, 174. Working West- 167 202 Trappers' Life, 223. A Herd of Buffalo, 227. A Good Run, 228. They run a Cañon, 232. The Salt Lake, 238. Captain Marcy, 245. Water! Water! 245. The Cavern, Head of Red River, 246. Buffalo Chase, 248. A House of the Aztecs, 250. Casa Montezuma, 251. Writings STORIES OF DISCOVERY. INTRODUCTION. T is now some years since Colonel Ingham has assem IT bled around him, once a week, a party of boys and girls who call him "Uncle Fritz." He is an amiable old gentleman, who has lived almost everywhere in the world; but he has at last come to an anchorage in what is known as the old Lady Oliver house, at Jamaica Plain, near Boston. The young people do much as they please with Colonel Ingham; and, as he does much as he pleases with them, this is all fair. Last winter, the custom was that they came out every Saturday afternoon for a long afternoon's talk, and for a dance or other frolic in the evening. Of the dancing, alas, there is no record, by instantaneous photograph or otherwise; but the afternoons followed a certain regular fashion, like that which has been recorded in other books of this series.1 At the last meeting the young people had in the winter of 1880-81, they agreed that their next winter's reading with Uncle Fritz should be of voyages and other expeditions of discovery. Thus, as the next winter passed they collected the material for this volume, 'STORIES OF DISCOVERY, TOLD BY DISCOVERERS.” 66 1 "Stories of War, told by Soldiers." "Stories of the Sea, told by Sailors." "Stories of Adventure, told by Adventurers." |