CONTENTS. vii. 



CHAPTER XL 



History of Nicaragua- Its Discovery by the Spaniards Their 

 Expeditions Gonzalez de Avila Hernandez de Contreras 

 Wholesale Slaughter of the Natives Oviedo Pedro de 

 Alvarado History of the Independence of Central America 

 Morazan Presidents of Nicaragua Civil Wars Expedi 

 tion of Walker Walker His Fall and Execution in Honduras 

 The Mosquito Kingdom 113-125 



CHAPTER XII. 



Projects for Opening Interoceanic Canals by Nicaragua, 

 Panama, Darien, and Tehuantepec Manuel Alfonso de la 

 Cerda John Bailly Pierre Rouhaud Napoleon Garella 

 Napoleon Bonaparte Vanderbilt Company What the 

 South American Republics ought to do Felix Belly The 

 Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua My opinion about 

 the Cost of Opening a Canal Certainty of the Opening of 

 the Panama and Nicaragua Canals in the Future. . . 126-137 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Departure from Granada The Lake River San Juan San 

 Juan del Norte Sailing from San Juan del Norte At Sea 

 Arrival in New York New York in 1853-1854 Inter 

 national Exhibition of New York Adelina Patti Natural 

 History of New York Humming Birds The English 

 Sparrow Population Climate Industry Commerce . 138-161 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Is AMERICA part of the ATLANTIS of the Ancients ? The first 

 European Discoverers of that Continent Prophecy of 

 Tasso of the Discovery of America by CHRISTOPHER 

 COLUMBUS European Expeditions in North America 

 Discovery of Labrador by SEBASTIAN CABOT John Verrazani, 

 the first Discoverer of North Carolina and the harbours of 

 New York and Newport Discovery of Virginia by Captain 

 Philip A mid as and Arthur Barlow, acting for SIR WALTER 

 RALEIGH Colonization of North A merica by the English . 162-168 



CHAPTER XV. 



First Settlements in New York by the DUTCH Wars between 

 the DUTCH and the ENGLISH Old Description of NEW 

 NETHERLAND and NEW AMSTERDAM Of the Country and 

 its Natives Inhabitants Their Customs Vegetable and 

 Animal Life Mineral Ore Definitive Occupation of NEW 

 NETHERLAND and NEW AMSTERDAM by the ENGLISH War 

 of Independence Treaty of Peace signed by the ENGLISH 

 and the NORTH AMERICANS Declaration of Independence 

 of the UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON elected 

 President of the United States. , .. . , . . 169-178 



