CHAPTER I.

The Discovery and early Settlement of America. PAGE

Discovery of the New World.--Of Florida.--Conquest and cruelties of De Soto.--The Wigwam.--Colony at St. Mary.--Sir Walter Raleigh and his Colonies.--Grant of King James.--Settlements in the Virginia.--Adventures of John Smith.--Arrival of Lord Delaware.--Terrible massacres.--Pressures of Colonists to the West.--Doherty Trade with Indians.--Attempted Colony on the Tennessee.--Daniel Boone. 9