...ng revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers wh... ...overy of America by Zichmni and Zeno. -- Caught by a terrible storm and driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the ... ...ffering human sacrifices -- How the victims were obtained -- The great pyramid upon which sacrifices were made -- Ceremonies connected with the bloody... ...nd Negro Ponto with Greece; and accounts have been given of the finding of the hulls of ships and iron anchors upon the mountains of Switzerland, very... ...g of the cordage are plainly heard. Again he beholds her in a good breeze, her hull enveloped in mist. A gun is fired from her bow; voices are heard a... ...e shore; thirty thousand men were thirty years in digging the iron to make her hull. Her cables were; as thick as the diameter of St. Peter's dome and... ...., and the merchants and dealers were glad to see a fleet of pirates come into Kingston Harbor after a successful razzia. But English assistance went ... ...d assistance determined Morgan to seize a French man-of-war which was then off Kingston. A plausible pretext was found in the fact that some time befo...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the anc...