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13. In North America are bears, buffaloes, 

 wolves, foxes, rabbits, and many tame animals, 

 but no wild lions or elephants or camels. 



14. About four hundred years ago there were 

 no white people in North or South America 

 none but Indians, some of whom were savage. 



15. Indians had inhabited America no one 

 knows how long; but it was in the year 1492 

 that Columbus first sailed across the Atlantic 

 Ocean from Europe, with three ships and about 

 one hundred Spaniards. They landed on one 

 of the islands of the West Indies. Columbus 

 was, therefore, the discoverer of America 



1 6. Many other people came here afterward 

 Spaniards, French, and British, nearly all of 

 whom took possession of America without the 

 slightest regard for the Indians, who were, of 

 course, the first owners. 



1 7. The Spaniards took Mexico ; the British 

 and French, nearly all the remaining portion of 

 North America. (See p. 143, paragraph 13.) 



