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A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDSAnd Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World;FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDECORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE.DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE SEA AND THE OBSTACLES WHICHSTRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES.COMPRISING ALSOAN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICABy the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century.SUPPLEMENTED WITHTHRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGSOF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVEMADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACYOVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH.RECITING ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGEPEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, ANDRECORDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE RIOT OF MURDER, PILLAGE AND INHUMANITYWHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHORAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR CENTURIES BID DEFIANCETO THE ARMED FLEETS OF ALL NATIONS.