... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...personal safety -- Description of the King -- Animal life on Crab island -- An accident to the ship -- A pleasant visit to the island Booton -- Among ... ...oomerang throwers - - Game found in Australia -- Timidity of the natives -- An accident to the ship -- Curious customs -- Australian lance throwers --... ...e indisputable evidence of their former existence, though history may not tell us how they were destroyed, we will now undertake to show that the new ... ...ry, the Pariahs, or outcasts, who were so accursed that when they went along a road they were required to shout at every seven steps lest they should ... ...is the pilgrimage made, and during that time all Arabia is in commotion. Every road swarms with pilgrims; singly, here and there a lonely traveller, t... ...d. They were men of generally irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled ... ...eft Terra del Fuego, and continuing eastward, passed Falkland islands, isle of Georgia, and several others at which he called, so that it was not unti...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...