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SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For various topics in connection with Sir Walter Raleigh and Captain John Smith, see the Index to Fiske's _Old Virginia and her Neighbours_. Incidents in the Life of Captain John Smith: see John Esten Cooke's _Virginia_ (American Commonwealth Series), pp. 22-76. The Story of Pocahontas, Cooke's _Virginia_, pp. 35-103.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Towle's _Raleigh, his Voyages and Adventures_; Cooke's _Stories of the Old Dominion_; Eggleston's and Seelye's _Pocahontas_ (Ajax Series).

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Towle's _Magellan, or the First Voyage Round the World_.

CHAPTERS IV AND V. PAGES 47-72.

THE PILGRIMS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Many topics in connection with this chapter may be selected from Fiske's _The Beginnings of New England_, as, The Separatists, p. 66; Why the Pilgrims did not stay in Holland, p.

74; Voyage of the Mayflower, p. 80; The Pilgrims and the Indians, p. 83.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Griffis's _The Pilgrims and their Three Homes_; Moore's _Pilgrims and Puritans_; Abbott's _Captain Miles Standish_ (Ajax Series); Drake's _On Plymouth Rock_; Bacon's _Historic Pilgrimages in New England_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Jane G. Austin's _Standish of Standish_, _Betty Alden_, _Nameless n.o.bleman_, and _David Alden's Daughter_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Mrs. Hemans's _Landing of the Pilgrims_; Longfellow's _Courts.h.i.+p of Miles Standish_; Bryant's _Twenty-Second of December_; Holmes's _The Pilgrim's Vision_.

CHAPTER VI. PAGES 73-87.

THE INDIANS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For special topics about the Indians, see Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, Vol. I, p. 1, also the Introduction to Parkman's _Jesuits in North America_.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Brooks's _Story of the American Indian_; Drake's _Indian History for Young Folks_; Starr's _American Indians_; Shaler's _The Story of Our Continent_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Longfellow's _Hiawatha_.

CHAPTER VII. PAGES 88-105.

THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Henry Hudson: his voyages, voyage upon the Great River, his tragic fate, see Fiske's _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_, Vol. I, pp. 83-95. William Penn: see the Index to Fiske's _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--_The Great Peace Maker_ (Penn) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Peter Stuyvesant_ (Ajax Series).

OUTSIDE READINGS.--b.u.t.terworth's _Wampum Belt_ (Penn); Irving's _Knickerbocker's History of New York_ (humorous and satirical account of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland); Paulding's _The Dutchman's Fireside_ (Colonial Life in New York).

CHAPTER VIII. PAGES 106-125.

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For a great variety of topics in connection with the French and Indian Wars and the overthrow of New France, the student will find the books of Parkman a vast storehouse of intensely fascinating reading matter. See the index to the various volumes. For example, read La Salle's Descent of the Mississippi, Parkman's _La Salle_, pp. 275-288; Braddock's March and Defeat; Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_, Vol. I, p. 204, and The Heights of Abraham, Vol. II, p. 259-297.