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"The Poor Little Governor . . . Distanced His Fierce Pursuers at Last"

South American Fights and Fighters

AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL. D.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY SEYMOUR M. STONE, GEORGE GIBBS, W. J. AYLWARD AND J. N. MARCHAND

TOGETHER WITH REPRODUCTIONS FROM OLD PRINTS AND PORTRAITS

GARDEN CITY ———— NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MCMXIII To George William Beatty Good Fellow, Good Citizen Good Friend

PREFACE CONTENTS

PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS

I Panama and the Knights-Errant of Colonization I. The Spanish Main II. The Don Quixote of Discoveries and His Rival "Ojeda Galloped Off with His Astonished Captive" "The Indians Poured a Rain of Poisoned Arrows" III. The Adventures of Ojeda IV. Enter One Vasco Nuñez de Balboa V. The Desperate Straits of Nicuesa II Panama, Balboa and a Forgotten Romance I. The Coming of the Devastator "Balboa . . . Engaged in Superintending the Roofing of a House" II. The Greatest Exploit since Columbus's Voyage "The Expedition Had to Fight Its Way Through Tribes of Warlike and Ferocious Mountaineers" "He Took Possession of the Sea in the Name of Castile and Leon" "He Threw the Sacred Volume to the Ground in a Violent Rage" III. "Furor Domini" IV. The End of Balboa III Peru and the Pizarros A Study in Retribution "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword." I. The Chief Scion of a Famous Family II. The Terrible Persistence of Pizarro III. "A Communistic Despotism." IV. The Treacherous and Bloody Massacre of Caxamarca. V. The Ransom and Murder of the Inca "They Burst Upon the Ranks of the Unarmed Indians." "The Three Pizarros . . . Sallied Out to Meet Them" VI. The Inca and the Peruvians Strike Vainly for Freedom "He Threw His Sole Remaining Weapon in the Faces of the Escaladers" VII. "The Men of Chili" and the Civil Wars Fernando Cortes. From a Picture in the Florence Gallery VIII. The Mean End of the Great Conquistador IX. The Last of the Brethren IV The Greatest Adventure in History I. The Chief of all the Soldiers of Fortune II. The Expedition to Mexico. III. The Religion of the Aztecs IV. The March to Tenochtitlan V. The Republic of Tlascala VI. Cortes' Description of Mexico, written by his own hand to Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain VII. The Meeting with Montezuma VIII. The Seizure of the Emperor IX. The Revolt of the Capital X. In God's Way The Death of Montezuma. From an old engraving. "He Defended Himself With His Terrible Spear" XI. The Melancholy Night XII. The Siege and Destruction of Mexico XIII. A Day of Desperate Fighting XIV. The Last Mexican XV. The End of Cortes

PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

I The Yarn of the Essex, Whaler "The Ship Came to a Dead Stop" "The Killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804" II Some Famous American Duels I. A Tragedy of Old New York II. Andrew Jackson as a Duellist III. The Killing of Stephen Decatur IV. An Episode in the Life of James Bowie V. A Famous Congressional Duel VI. The Last Notable Duel in America III The Cruise of the Tonquin A Forgotten Tragedy in Early American History IV John Paul Jones Being Further Light on His Strange Career[1] I. The Birth of the American Navy II. Jones First Hoists the Stars and Stripes III. The Battle With the Serapis IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings V. What Jones Did for His Country VI. Why Did He Take the Name of Jones? VII. Search for Historical Evidence VIII. The Joneses of North Carolina IX. Paul Jones Never a Man of Wealth V In the Caverns of the Pitt A Story of a Forgotten Fight with the Indians VI Being a Boy Out West INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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