AURO'S Map of the World, 1457.

Negro Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
From CABOT'S Map, 1544.

The West Coast of Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
From MARTIN BEHAIM'S Map, 1492.

The Parting of Columbus with Ferdinand and Isabella, 3rd August
1492 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
From DE BRY'S account of the _Voyages to India_, 1601.

Columbus's Ship, the _Santa Maria_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
From a Woodcut of 1493, supposed to be after a Drawing by
COLUMBUS.

Columbus landing on Hispaniola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
From a Woodcut of 1494.

The first Representation of the People of the New World . . . . . 163
From a Woodcut published at Augsburg between 1497 and 1504.

The Town of Isabella and the Colony founded by Columbus . . . . . 166
From a Woodcut of 1494.

Vasco da Gama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
From a contemporary Portrait.

Africa as it was known after da Gama's Expeditions . . . . . . . 175
From JUAN DE LA COSA'S Map of 1500.

Calicut and the Southern Indian Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
From JUAN DE LA COSA'S Map, 1500.

The Malabar Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
From FRA MAURO'S Map.

A Ship of Albuquerque's Fleet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
From a very fine Woodcut in the British Museum.

A Ship of Java and the China Seas in the 16th century . . . . . . 187
From LINSCHOTEN'S _Navigatio ac Itinerarium_, 1598.

One of the first Maps of the Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
From DIEGO RIBERO'S Map, 1529.

Magellan's Fleet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
From MERCATOR'S _Mappe Monde_, 1569.

A Ship of the 16th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
From AMORETTI'S translation of _Magellan's Voyage round the
World_.

"Hondius his Map of the Magellan Streight" . . . . . . . . . . . 201
From a Map by JODOCUS HONDIUS, about 1590.

The first Ship that sailed round the World . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Magellan's _Victoria_, from HULSIUS'S _Collection of Voyages_,
1602.

Hernando Cortes, Conqueror of Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
After the original Portrait at Mexico.

The Battles of the Spaniards in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
From an ancient Aztec Drawi