COLONIAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE WARS OF INDEPENDENCE. ILLUSTRATIONS: View of Callao, 298 ; Attack on Callao, 299; Map of Guayaquil and Puna, 300; Plan of Guayaquil, 301 ; Figures of Luis Fernandez de Cordova, Marques de Baydes, and Francisco Laso della Vega, 302; Map of the West In- dies (1740), 308 ; Procession of the Inquisition, 310 ; View of Valparaiso, 312; Plan of Lima, 313; Map of Peru (1792), 320; Plan of Santiago de Chile, 321 ; Don Ambrosio O'Higgins, 322; Miranda, 325; José Miguel de Carrera, 326; Belgrano, 327 ; Plan of the Battle of Huaqui, 328 ; Statue of San Martin, 329; Bernardo O'Higgins, 330 ; Plan of the Battle of Maypu, 331 ; Lord Cochrane's House at Quintero, 332; Lord Cochrane, 333; Bolivar, 335; General Miller, 336; Plan of the Battle of Ayacucho, 338; Bolivar, 339; Valparaiso Fort, 340. ILLUSTRATIONS : Juan Ignacio Molina, 345; Diego Barras Arana, 348. EDITORIAL NOTE ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRAZIL. 349 jacentia Castra,” 353; Map of the Attack on Rio Janeiro (1711), 355; René du Guay-Trouin, 357 358 west, 366. Peru and Chile, 367. Montevideo, 361 ; Sir Samuel Auchmuty, 362; Map of the Island of Cayenne, 364; Plan of the Town of Cayenne, 365; Father Toribio, 368. · 369 the Brazil Coast (1504) by Lorenz Friess, 373; View of Cape Frio, 376; Schö- II. State and Personal Archives, 426; Massachusetts, 426; New Hampshire, 438; Vermont, 440; Rhode Island, 440 ; Connecticut, 442 ; New York, 444; New nies, 458. German, 468 ; Spanish, 468 ; Italian, 468. Bowdoin, 430 ; Autograph of Timothy Pickering, 434; James Warren and Au- 448; of Frederick Haldimand, 461. COMPREHENSIVE PRINTED AUTHORITIES UPON THE GENERAL AND UPON SOME SPECIAL PHASES OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1850. ILLUSTRATIONS: William Gordon, 470; David Ramsay, 472; Mrs. Mercy Warren, 473; Autograph of Abiel Holmes, 474 ; George Bancroft and his Autograph, 476; Washington's Book-plate, 483; Phillis Wheatley, 495. THE EDITOR'S FINAL STATEMENT. 509 511 NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA CHAPTER I. THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY.1 BY GEORGE E. ELLIS, D.D., LL. D., President Massachusetts Historical Society. HE most lavish liberality or generosity exhibited in this world of men is shown in the bestowal of a gift which does not belong to the donor of it. In such cases there is generally a very slight knowledge, if not an absolute ignorance, of the quality and value of the gift; so the terms of it are likely to be not only very general but very loose and vague. Indeed, part of the charm of such a gift will consist in the undefined possibilities, the imagined revelations, which may go with it. The burdens and responsibilities attending the acceptance of it, and the trespasses upon the rights of others, the injuries likely to be inflicted upon them, and the struggles, animosities, and controversies, with the risk of final discomfiture, in the maintenance of such a possession, are either not taken into account, or are winked out of sight. These familiar truths were signally illustrated, on a very grand scale too, in the gifts made by ecclesiastics and monarchs of the old world of expanses of territory on this western hemisphere, when opened by the early navigators. Under the latest advances of astronomical science, spaces in the moon might now be almost as definitely assigned to claimants for them as were the regions of this new world. Before it was known whether what had been discovered here were an island, an archipelago, or a continent, it was made over in a lump by the Pope to the monarchs of Spain. It was under the famous Bull of Demarcation that Spain was shortly after, by a convention with Portugal, forced to divide to a small extent with that power. Notwithstanding such papal partiality,2 Francis of France soon claimed his 1 [Dr. Ellis has given a summary of this chapter in the Bulletin of the Amer. Geog. Soc., 1886, No. 2, pp. 127-136. — Ed.] ? (See Vol. II. – ED.) share in the real estate left by Adam. Then the Henrys and the Charleses of England announced themselves also as heirs. These rival sovereigns all wore the complimentary title of “Christian princes.” As such they could take rightful possession of all heathendom, - of territory or of people. The sighting of a space of ocean shore by their respective navigators gave a title to the utmost reaches of land bounding upon it. The gifts bestowed were of princely largeness. Of course the boundaries of (Note. - The opposite map is from the Zwölffte Schiffahrt of the Hulsius Sammlung (Oppenheim, 1614), being Hessel Gerritsz's Kurtze Beschreibung der Newen Schiffahrt gegen Nord-osten über die Americanische inseln, etc., in Hochteutscher Sprach beschrieben durch M. Gothardam Arthusen. The above cut is a fac-simile of a map in Drage's Account of a Voyage (London, 1849), vol. ii. — Ed.] |