Huygen, Hendrick, 150, 152, 158
_I_
Iberville, Pierre le Moyne d’, 192
Ibn-Batootah, 7, 8
Iceland, 17, 24
Illinois, 203
Illinois Indians, 191, 192, 197
Illinois River, 193
India, 2, 7, 14, 16, 24, 63
Indian, 110, 123, 124, 129, 134, 142, 150, 158, 168, 172, 174, 176,
183, 196, 200, 201, 203
corn, viii, 28, 35, 48, 69, 75, 94, 96
league, 176
policy, 198
trade, 126, 128, 148, 153, 154, 156, 157, 169, 174, 177, 180, 184,
193, 194, 200
village, 131, 169, 174, 195
Indian Ocean, 5, 27, 50, 52, 53
Indians, vii, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64,
68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 80, 84, 85, 87, 89, 94, 97, 100, 102,
105, 109, 115, 117, 119, 128, 129, 130, 133, 136, 137, 139, 143, 148,
149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 158, 159, 160, 161, 165, 167, 169, 170, 171,
172, 173, 175, 180, 181, 188, 191, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200
customs of, 121-122
Indian Sea, 83
Indies, 16
Ingram, David, 33
Ireland, 17, 72
Iroquois Confederacy, 73
Iroquois Indians, 30, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 61, 73, 74, 75, 77, 80,
107, 123, 128, 129, 137, 138, 139, 170, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 181,
182, 184, 187, 190, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198
customs of, 74
Islam, 5
Italy, 6, 14
Italian merchants, 5, 6, 14
Ivan the Terrible, 12, 44, 45
_J_
James I, 54, 58, 83, 86, 108, 164
James Bay, 189
James, Duke of York, 184, 186
James River, 20, 28, 29, 59, 82, 83, 85, 87, 89, 115, 116, 118, 120,
124, 125, 195, 196
Jamestown, 57, 58, 60, 62, 69, 82, 89, 115, 116, 117, 118, 127, 143,
144, 150, 195
Jansen, Commissary Jan, 146, 149, 150, 154, 156, 159
Japazaws, 118
Jason, 2, 3, 4 _passim_, 188
Jesuit priests, 29, 85, 190, 191
Johnson, Dr. Amandus, 151, 157
Joliet, Louis, 190
Julin, 10
Juno, 3
_K_
_Kalmar Nyckel_ (ship), 148, 150, 151
Karlsefni, Thorfinn, 17, 19, 20, 21, 69
Kaskaskia, 193
Kecoughtan, 115, 120, 126, 146
Kennebec River, 83, 87, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 145
Kent Hundred, 127
Kent Island, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134
Kent Islanders, 128, 130, 131
Kentucky, 199, 203
Khan, Kublai, the Great, 6, 7, 13
Kieft, Governor William, 150, 175
King George’s War, 198, 199, 200
Kirke brothers, 109, 126, 128
“Kleynties,” 76
Kling, Lieutenant Mans, 150, 156
Knight, Capt. John, 54
Kublai Khan, 6, 7, 13
_L_
Labrador, 25
Laconia Company, 104, 156
_La Dauphine_ (ship), 27, 28
Lake Champlain, 41, 74, 104
Lake Chautauqua, 201
Lake Erie, 193, 199, 201
Lake Huron, 193
Lake Michigan, 187
Lake Nipissing, 42
Lake of the Iroquois, 41, 156
Lake Onondaga, 75
Lake Ontario, 42, 75, 190
Lake Superior, 188
Lake Winnipeg, 22
Lake Winnepesaukee, 104, 181
Lamberton, George, 153, 154
Lancaster, 198, 200
Lane, Governor Ralph, 53, 54
La Rochelle, 32, 35, 86
La Salle, Sieur de, 190, 191, 192, 197
La Tour, Charles de, 108, 109, 110, 111
Laud, William (Bishop of London), 124
Lederer, John, 193
Lee, Thomas, 200
Leif, Ericson, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22
Leigh, Capt. Charles, 37, 54
Leipzig, 26
Lenni Lenape Indians, 74, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 148, 149
Levett, Christopher, 98
Levy, Franks and Simon, 200
Lewger, John (Secretary of Maryland), 133
Leyden, 92
Lincolnshire, 57
Logan, James, 198
Lok, Michael, 49
London, 37, 45, 48, 55, 63, 64, 83, 95, 119, 132, 164, 165, 184, 189,
200
London Company, 57, 58, 69, 82, 83
Long Island Sound, 18, 78, 87, 102, 153, 165, 171, 173, 183
_Long Tayle_ (pinnace), 130, 131, 132
Lords Commissioners of Plantations, 132
Louis XIV, 190, 191
Louisburg, 203
Louisiana, viii, ix, 192, 193
Lowrey brothers, 199
_M_
Machias (Maine), 111
Machias River, 104
Maine, 18, 55, 62, 68, 83, 84, 85, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104,
105, 106, 107,110, 111, 112, 156
Malaga, 95
Malaya, 14, 16
Malay Archipelago, 5
Manhattan, 70, 71, 73, 77, 78, 79, 86, 88, 89, 102, 136, 140, 144,
145, 150, 154, 158, 163, 164, 165, 166, 173, 175, 176, 177, 179,
181, 185
Marco Polo, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25
“Markland,” 22
Marquette, Father Jacques, 190
Martha’s Vineyard, 78
Martiau, Capt. Nicholas, 127
Mary Tudor (Queen of England), 47
Maryland, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 183, 198, 200
Marylanders, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 152, 200
Mason, Capt. John, 98, 104, 172
Massachusetts, 103, 112, 156, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 180,
182, 183
Massachusetts Bay, 167
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 111
Massachusetts Bay Company, 101
Massachusetts Indians, 95, 97, 98, 99
Matagorda Bay, 192
_Matthew_ (boat), 24
Mathews, Samuel, 120
Maverick, Samuel, 98
May, Capt. Cornelis Jacobsen, 77, 78, 89, 135, 136, 137, 138
May, Peter, 146, 149
_Mayflower_ (ship), 92, 93, 94
Mediterranean, 5, 6, 13, 14
Merrimac River, 98, 181
Merrymount, 100, 101, 104
Mesopotamians, 4
Mexico, 41, 190
Minqua Indians, 77, 79, 140, 144, 149, 150, 152, 154
Minquas Kill, 148, 149, 150
Minnesota, 22
Minnesota River, 193
Minuit, Governor Peter, 136, 140, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151
Mississippi, 192
Mississippi River, 134, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 196, 203
discovery of, 189
Missouri River, 188, 189, 193
Mobile, 192
Mohammed, 5
Mohawk Indians, 73, 74, 75, 170, 175, 176
Mohawk Valley, 76, 187, 197
Mohegan Indians, 73, 75, 137, 167, 172, 173
Moluccas, 24
Mongolia, 4, 7
Monhegan Island, 101
Monongahela River, 201
Montagnais Indians, 33, 40
Montour, Andrew, 199, 201
Montreal, 30, 197, 199, 203
Monts, Sieur de, 39, 41, 84
Morton, Thomas, 100, 101, 104
Moscow, 11, 44, 45
Moslem, 5, 6
Mount Desert Island, 18, 19, 62, 85, 86
Moxon, Rev. George, 170
Moyne, Pierre le (Sieur d’Iberville), 192
Muscongus River, 104
Muscovy, 50, 72
Muscovy Company, 44, 67
Muskingum River, 199
Mystic River, 172
_N_
Nantasket, 99
Narragansett Bay, 101, 102, 174
Narragansett Indians, 87, 96, 101, 102, 171, 172, 173, 174
Narrows, 70, 166
Natchez, 193
Natchitoches, 193
Naugatuck River, 180
Navigation Acts, 182, 184, 186
Neale, Capt. Walter, 104, 156
Needham, James, 194
Nelson River, 22
Netherlands. _See_ Holland
New Amsterdam, 158, 162, 163, 164, 166, 168, 175, 182, 183, 184
New Brunswick, 108
New Castle, 161
New England, 40, 64, 81, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 97, 108, 119, 135, 151,
153, 158, 163, 165, 166, 167, 171, 180, 181, 183, 196
Confederation of, 112
Council for, 93, 97, 98, 99
New Englanders, 107, 137, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 167, 168, 171, 172,
173, 179, 180, 181, 182, 197
Newfoundland, 17, 25, 37, 50, 51, 63, 68, 70, 108, 114
New France, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 74, 79, 80, 82,
83, 107, 108, 109, 110, 158, 190
New Haven, 153, 155, 173, 175, 180, 182
New Jersey, 153
New Mexico, 192
New Netherland, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 90, 92, 108, 113, Chapter XII,
147, 149, 151, 155, 161, 162, Chapter XV, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184,
185, 186, 197
Council of, 154
Governor of, 148, 158, 179
New Netherlanders, 102, 146, 175, 176, 183
_New Netherland_ (ship), 136
New Orleans, 192, 203
New Plymouth, 166, 167, 168, 171
Newport, Capt. Christopher, 58, 116
New River Valley, 194
New Scotland, 108, 109
New Spain, 52, 70, 82, 83, 108
New Sweden, 148, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 183
New York (city), ix, 76, 136, 137, 164, 184, 196
New York (state), 185, 193, 197
New Yorkers, 40
_New York Times_, ix
New World, 3, 80, 92
Niagara, 42, 202, 203
Nicollet, Jean, 187, 188
Nicolls, Colonel Richard, 184, 185
Nile, 4, 60
Noddle’s Island, 98
Normans, 13, 25, 27, 46
Norman’s Kill, 137
Norsemen, 9, 10 _passim_, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 69
North America, 24, 54, 135, 136
North River, 137, 141, 151, 165
North Sea, 9, 11, 12
Norwalk, 173
Norway, 22
Norwegians, 22
Nova Scotia, 17, 22, 54, 68, 107, 108, 109, 110, 126, 189, 202
Novgorod, 10, 11, 12, 45
Nuremberg, 17
_O_
Oder River, 10
Ohio, 203
Ohio Company, 200, 202
Ohio River, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203
Oldham, John, 104, 167, 171
Oneida Indians, 74
Onondaga Indians, 74
_Onrust_ (ship), 78, 79
Ontario, 188
Opechancanough, 118
Orient, 6, 135
Oriental pelts, 9, 187
Ottawa Indians, 201
Ottawa River, 41, 42
Oyster Bay, 173
_P_
Pacific Ocean, 203
Palmer’s Island, 127, 128, 130, 133, 134
Pamlico Sound, 52
Pamunkey Indians, 124
Panama Canal, 38
Paris, 33, 39
Passyunk, 137, 138, 160
Patowomecks, 115, 118
Patuxent River, 116, 131
Peirsey, Abraham, 120
Pelias, King, 3
Pemaquid, 104, 111
Penn, William, 137, 198
Penn’s son, 198
Pennsauken Creek, 145
Pennsylvania, 76, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200
Penobscot Bay, 68, 88
Penobscot River, 103, 104, 110, 111, 187
Pentagoet, 103, 110, 112
Pentagoet Bay, 112
Peoria, Illinois, 191
Pequot Indians, 102, 167, 168, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176
annihilation of, 172
War, 171
Persians, 4, 44, 45
Philadelphia, ix, x, 39, 78, 123, 127, 137, 144, 145, 153, 155, 160,
200
Philip II (King of Spain), 48
Phoenicians, 17
Piedmont plateau, 74
Pilgrims, 90, Chapter IX, 110, 111, 112, 156, 167, 168
Pimitoui, 193
Piscataqua, 98, 104
Piscataqua River, 104
Piscattaway Indians, 129
Placentia Bay, 108
Pleskow, 11
Plymouth, Chapter IX, 111, 112, 157, 164
Plymouth Company, 83, 84, 88, 93
Pocahontas, 58, 61, 117
Pocomoke River, 131
Point Comfort, 124
Polo, Marco, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25
Poole, Robert, 117
Popham, Sir Francis, 88
Popham, George, 83
Popham, Sir John (Chief Justice), 83
Port Royal (Bay of Fundy), 39, 62, 84, 85, 86, 108, 109, 110, 111, 126
Port Royal, South Carolina, 194
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 98
Portugal, 11, 13, 23, 25, 26
Portuguese, 14, 15, 16, 25
Potomac River, 29, 65, 115, 116, 118, 121, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132,
134, 200
Poutrincourt, Sieur de, 84, 86, 108
Powhatan, 58, 59, 60, 117
Powhatan Confederacy, 59, 116, 124
Pring, Martin, 55, 83
Printz, Johan (Governor of New Sweden), 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158,
159, 160, 161, 162, 163
Province Island, 153, 155, 159
Puritan, 101, 111, 112, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172
Pynchon, William, 169-170, 171, 181
_Q_
Quaker, 198, 199
Quebec, 30, 32, 40, 41, 42, 108, 109, 110, 145, 188, 190, 203
Quebec Province, 108
Quincy, 99
_R_
Radisson, Pierre Esprit, 188, 189, 190
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 82
Rappahannock River, 115
Rasieres, Isaak de, 102
Razilly, Chevalier Isaac de, 110, 111
Red River, 22
Renaissance, 12, 14, 46
Rensselaer, Kiliaen van, 141, 176, 177, 178
Rensselaerwyck, 141, 176, 177, 178, 179
Restoration, 183
Rhode Island, 173, 174, 175
Richelieu, Cardinal de, 109
Richelieu River, 41
Richmond’s Island, 104, 105
Rising, Johan, 162, 163
Roanoke, 37, 52, 54, 55, 82
Roberval, Sieur de, 32
Rocky Mountains, viii, 203
Rolfe, John, 118
Romans, 4, 5, 60
Rome, 4, 124
Rotterdam, 151
Rouen, 32, 39
“Rupert’s Land,” 189
Rupert, Prince, 189
Rurik, 9
Russia, 9, 10, 12, 26, 44, 45, 51, 63
Russian, 45, 46
_S_
Saco River, 104
Sagahadoc, 83, 84, 88, 101
St. Augustine, 186
St. Christopher’s Island, 151
St. Croix, 39, 62, 84, 86
St. Croix River, 186, 187
Saint George, 83
_St. Helen_ (pinnace), 131
Saint Just, 84, 85, 86, 108
St. Lawrence River, 20, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 56,
62, 85, 86, 107, 108, 110, 112, 145, 188, 190, 203
St. Malo, 32, 33
_St. Margaret_ (boat), 131
St. Mary’s, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133
Salem Creek, 153
Salem, 101
San Miguel, 28
Santo Domingo, 28, 29
Sanuto, 14
Saquenay, 30, 31, 32
Savage, Thomas, 115, 116, 117, 120
Savannah River, 195
Saxons, 10
Scandinavia, 5, 11
Schuylkill River, 137, 138, 144, 149, 153, 155, 159, 160
Scioto River, 199
Scotland, 110, 126
Scots, 109, 111
Scottish Company, 110
Scottish and English Company, 109
Semiramis, 2
Seneca Indians, 74
Seven Years’ War, 202
Shawnee Indians, 194, 198
Shenandoah Valley, 197
Shippen and Lawrence, 200
Siberia, 6, 7, 11, 24, 26, 45
Sioux Indians, 188
Skraelings, Chapter II, 94
Skute, Capt. Sven, 162, 163
Slavic lands, 4, 9, 10
Slavs, 10
Slechtenhorst, Brandt van, 178, 179
Smith, Capt. Dirck, 163
Smith, Henry, 169
Smith, Capt. John, 48, 56, Chapter VI, 68, 69, 77, 83, 87, 88, 89, 94,
95, 115, 116, 117, 118, 123
Smith, Richard, 173, 174
Smith, Capt. Thomas, 130, 133
Smith, Sir Thomas, 58, 83
Snorri, 19
Somes Sound, 18
Southampton, 50, 92
South America, 24, 29, 54
South River, 71, 78, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150,
151, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163
South Sea, 54, 55, 145, 186, 199
Sowamset, 171
Spain, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26, 27, 48, 50, 52, 53, 69, 80, 125, 135, 140,
148, 186, 203
Spaniards, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 52, 80, 82, 115, 124, 140, 186, 192,
194, 196
Spanish, 27, 48, 52, 70, 76, 95, 124, 135, 136, 148, 149, 150, 190,
194, 196
Spanish Florida, 54, 77, 185, 186, 196
Spanish Hill, 76
Spanish West Indies, 157
Spelman, Henry, 117, 118, 119
Springfield, 169, 170
Squanto, 94, 95, 96
Stamford, 173, 176
Standish, Capt. Miles, 94, 96, 101, 105, 112
“staple right,” 177
States General of the Netherlands, 79, 80, 90, 92, 135, 168, 177, 179,
182
Stoughton, Captain, 172
Strabo, 16
Stratford, 173
Stuyvesant, Governor Peter, 159, 160, 162, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182,
183, 184, 185
Susquehanna River, 61, 65, 68, 74, 76, 77, 113, 123, 127, 133, 134,
138, 152, 197, 199
Susquehannocks, 61, 76, 77, 123, 129, 138, 139, 153
Swanendael, 141, 142, 144, 147
Sweden, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 156, 157, 162
Swedes, 22, 36, Chapter XIV
Swedish, 146, Chapter XIV
_T_
Tadoussac, 40
Tartars, 6, 7, 8, 13, 44, 45, 57
Tartar Empire, 7
Tartary, 29, 30, 40
Tawasentha, 137
Taylor, Philip, 132
Taz River, 11
Tennessee River, 196
Texas, 192
Thames River, 11, 56, 182
The Hague, 73, 89, 90
Thirty Years’ War, 107, 165
Thompson, David, 98
Thompson, Maurice, 125
Thorowgood, Cyprian, 128
Thorn, Poland, 10
Thorvald Ericson, 18
Thorvaldson, Eric (Eric the Red), 17, 21
Three Rivers, 39, 77, 188
Ticonderoga, 203
Tierra D’Ayllon, 28, 29
Tierra Florida, 28
Timber Creek, 137
Tinicum Island, 155, 161, 163
Tobolsk, 11
Tonti, Henri de, 191
Transylvania, 57
_Treasurer_ (ship), 85, 87
Treaty of Hartford, 182
Treaty of Lancaster, 200
Treaty of Paris, 203
Trent, Capt. William, 199, 201, 202
Trenton, 138
Trinity Bay, 108
Trinity Harbor, 50
Turkey, 45
Turks, 14, 57
Turner, Capt. Nathaniel, 153, 157
Twide, Richard, 33
Tyrker, 18
_U_
Ulster Scots, 197
Underhill, Capt. John, 172, 176
United Colonies, Commissioners of the, 183
United Colonies of New England, 180
United Netherlands, 80
United New Netherland Company, 73
United States, viii, ix
Urals, 11, 45
Usselinx, William, 80
_V_
Valley of Virginia, 74
Van Curler, Jacob, 167
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 141, 176, 177, 178
Van Slechtenhorst, Brandt, 178, 179
Van Twiller, Governor Wouter, 165, 166
Varangians, 9
Varkens Kill, 153, 155
Venango, 201
Venice, 6, 11, 14
Verhulst, William, 138
Verhulsten Island, 138
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 27, 28, 52, 69
Vervins, Peace of, 38
Vespucci, Amerigo, 25
Vikings, 9, Chapter II, 24, 94
Vines, Richard, 104
Vinland, Chapter II
Virginia, Capes of, 69
Virginia Company, 83, 86, 92
Virginia Company Council, 116
Virginia Council, 86, 115, 132
Virginia, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 78, 79, 80,
83, 86, 87, 89, 92, 93, 97, 99, 100, 113, Chapters XI, XII, 135, 144,
145, 146, 148, 151, 164, 184, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202
_Virginia_ (pinnace), 83
Virginians, 70, 80, 82, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125, 128,
129, 130, 134, 144, 146, 157, 194, 195, 196, 199, 200
Volga, 9
Vries, Capt. David Pieters de, 141, 143, 144
_W_
Wahunsonacock, 116
Waldseemuller, 25
“Walking Purchase,” 198
Walloons, 136, 137, 141
“Wall” Street, 182
Warren, Lieutenant Radcliffe, 131
Washington, D. C., 118
Washington, George, 201, 202
Washington family, 200
Watertown, Massachusetts, 167
Wessagusset, 99, 101
Wessel, 147
West, Capt. Francis, 98
West, John, 132
Westchester County, 173, 182
Westfield, 170
West India Company. _See_ Dutch West India Company
West Indies, 29, 38, 53, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151
Westoes, 195
Weston Thomas, 92, 93, 95, 98, 99
West Virginia, 199
Wethersfield, 168
Weymouth, 83, 99
Weymouth, Capt. George, 54, 55, 95
White, Father Andrew, 130
White, John, 53, 54
White Sea, 11, 44
Whiting, William, 157, 170
Whorekill, 142, 143, 147
Wickford, Rhode Island, 174
Wilcox, John, 157, 173
Willard, Simon, 181
_William_ (ship), 165, 166
Williams, Roger, 172, 173
Wilmington (Delaware), 79, 149
Windsor, 168
Winetha, 10
Winslow, Edward, 105, 166, 167
Winter, John, 105
Winthrop, Governor John, 101, 156, 166
Wisby, 11
Wisconsin, 187
Wollaston, 99, 100
Wood, Abraham, 194
Woodward, Henry, 195, 196
Woronoco, 170
Wyatt, Sir Francis (Governor of Virginia), 150
_Y_
York, Duke of, 184, 186
York River, 29, 115
Youghiogheny River, 199, 200, 201
Young, Capt. Thomas, 145, 146
Yowaccomoco Indians, 129
_Z_
Zipangu, 70
Transcriber’s Notes
A few minor errors in punctuation and spacing were corrected.
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hoods ostentatiously”
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Susquehanna”
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