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The West Coast of Africa
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From MARTIN BEHAIM'S Map, 1492.
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The Parting of Columbus with Ferdinand and Isabella, 3rd August 1492
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From DE BRY'S account of the Voyages to India, 1601.
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Columbus's Ship, the Santa Maria
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From a Woodcut of 1493, supposed to be after a Drawing by COLUMBUS.
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Columbus landing on Hispaniola
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From a Woodcut of 1494.
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The first Representation of the People of the New World
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From a Woodcut published at Augsburg between 1497 and 1504.
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The Town of Isabella and the Colony founded by Columbus
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From a Woodcut of 1494.
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Vasco da Gama
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From a contemporary Portrait.
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Africa as it was known after da Gama's Expeditions
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From JUAN DE LA COSA'S Map of 1500.
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Calicut and the Southern Indian Coast
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From JUAN DE LA COSA'S Map, 1500.
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The Malabar Coast
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From FRA MAURO'S Map.
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A Ship of Albuquerque's Fleet
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From a very fine Woodcut in the British Museum.
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A Ship of Java and the China Seas in the 16th century
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From LINSCHOTEN'S Navigatio ac Itinerarium, 1598.
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One of the first Maps of the Pacific
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From DIEGO RIBERO'S Map, 1529.
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Magellan's Fleet
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From MERCATOR'S Mappe Monde, 1569.
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A Ship of the 16th century
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From AMORETTI'S translation of Magellan's Voyage round the World.
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"Hondius his Map of the Magellan Streight"
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From a Map by JODOCUS HONDIUS, about 1590.
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The first Ship that sailed round the World
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Magellan's Victoria, from HULSIUS'S Collection of Voyages, 1602.
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Hernando Cortes, Conqueror of Mexico
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After the original Portrait at Mexico.
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The Battles of the Spaniards in Mexico
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From an ancient Aztec Drawing.
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Pizarro
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From the Portrait at Cuzco.
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Peru and South America
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From the Map of the World, 1544, usually ascribed to SEBASTIAN CABOT.
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Peruvian Warriors of the Inca Period
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From an ancient Peruvian Painting.
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Part of North America, showing Sebastian Cabot's Voyage to Newfoundland
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From the Map of 1544, usually ascribed to CABOT.
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Jacques Cartier
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From an old Pen-drawing at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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Canada and the River St. Lawrence, showing Quebec
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From LESCARBOT'S Histoire de la Nouvelle France, 1609.
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New France, showing Newfoundland, Labrador, and the St. Lawrence
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From JOCOMO DI GASTALDI'S Map, about 1550.
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Ivan Vasiliwich, King of Muscovie
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