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Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Exploration and Contact to 1600:Introduction. Before Columbus: Native American Cultures: The Pre-ColumbianWorld. The Origin Myth of Acoma... From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle. TheOrigin of Stories (Seneca). Pre-Columbian Literatures of the QuichU.Anonymous QuichU Author (Sixteenth Century): Popol Vuh. Excerpts from theMayan Chilam Balam. New World Encounters: Christopher Columbus (1451 -1506): From The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America ... BartolomUDe Las Casas (1474 - 1566): From The History on the Indies: Book I, ChapterXXXVII: On the Natural Law on God in His World ... Book I, Chapter XL: Of theIsland which Lay Before Them, and its People. Book III, Chapter LXXVIII: Ofthe Labours of the Indians in Cuba. Pero Vaz de Caminha (1467? - 1520? ):From The Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha to King Manuel I, May 1, 1500.Giovannida Verrazzano (1485 - 1528): The Voyage of Verrazzano, Florentine Noble inthe Service on Francois I, King of France, 1524. Alvar Nu�ez Cabeza de Vaca(1490? - 1556?): From Chapter 12: The Indians Bring us Food. From Chapter 15:What Befell us Among the People on Malado. From Chapter 22: The Coming ofOther Sick to us the Next Day. Bernal DYaz del Castillo (1492 - 1584): FromChapter 37: Of How Do�a Marina Was a Great Lady and Daughter of GreatLords, and Mistress over Towns and Vassals, and How She Was Brought toTabasco. From Chapter 88: Of the Great and Solemn Montezuma's Great andSolemn Reception of Cortes and of All of us on Our Entrance into Mexico. FromChapter 89: Of How Montezuma Came to Our Quarters with Many Chieftains, andthe Conversation He Had with Our Captain. From Chapter 90: Of How SoonThereafter Our Captain Went to See The Great Montezuma, and of CertainConversations They Had. From Chapter 91: Of the Manner and Appearance onMontezuma. From Chapter 93: Of How We Made Our Church and Altar in OurQuarters, and a Cross Outside Our Quarters, and Other Events, and of How WeFound the Antechamber and Chamber where Montezuma's Father's Treasure isKept, and How it was Agreed that Montezuma Should be Detained. From Chapter95: Montezuma's Arrest. From Chapter 97: Of How When Montezuma Was HeldPrisoner, Cortes and All Our Soldiers Treated Him with Affection, and EvenAllowed Him to Go to His Temples. From Chapter 107: Of Cortes and Montezuma.From Chapter 150: The Siege of Mexico. From Chapter 152: Of How the IndiansTook Seventy-Two Live Prisoners to be Sacrificed. From Chapter 156:Guatemoc's Arrest. Native Views on the Conquest on Mexico: The OmensDescribed By Mu�oz Camargo (1520): From the Story on the Conquest as Toldby the Anonymous Authors on Tlatelolco: The Arrival on Cortes (1519 - 21).The Massacre in the Main Temple. The Night of Sorrows. The Spaniards Return.The Tlateleolcas are Invited to Make a Treaty. The Fighting is Renewed. EpicDescription of the Besieged City. The Message from Cortes. The City Falls.The People Flee the City. The Fall of Tenochtitlan. Flowers and Songs ofSorrow. Diego de Landa (1524? - 79): From Account on Things in Yucat n: XV:Cruelties of the Spaniards toward the Indians. XLI: Cycle of the Mayas. TheirWriting. LII: Conclusion. Hans Staden (Fl.1550s): From The True History onHis Captivity, 1557. From Part I: The True History and Description of aCountry on Savages, a Naked and Terrible People, Eaters of Men's Flesh, WhoDwell in the New World Called America ... : Chapter I. From Chapter XVIII.Chapter XXII. Chapter XXIII. Chapter XXIV. Chapter XXVII. From Chapter XLII.From Chapter XLIII. From Part II: A True and Brief Account of All That ILearnt Concerning the Trade and Manners on the Tuppin Inbas, whose Captive IWas: Chapter XXIII: How They Turn the Women into Soothsayers. Chapter XXV:Why One Enemy Eats Another. Chapter XXVIII Of Their Manner on Killing andEating Their Enemies. Of the Instrument with which They Kill Them and theRites which Follow: From The Concluding Address. Manuel da N�brega (1517 -70): Dialogue for the Conversion of the Indians. Thomas Harriot (1560 -1621): From A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: FromThe First Part on Merchantable Commodities. Of the Nature and Maners of thePeople. Samuel de Chaplain (1570? - 1635): From The Voyages of Samuel deChaplain, 1604 - 1618: The Voyages of 1604 - 7. Part II: New WorldIdentities: Exploration and Settlement to 1700:Introduction. New Spain: ElInca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539 -1616): From The Florida on the Inca: TheInca's Dedication. The Inca's Preface. Felipe Huam n Poma de Ayala (1525?-1615?): From Letter to A King (1613): Royal Administrators. At WaysideInns. Spaniards. Proprietors. The Fathers. Negroes. The King's Questions.Gaspar PUrez de Villagr (1555 -1620): History of New Mexico, 1610: FromCanto I: Which Sets Forth the Outline of the History and the Location ofMexico, and the Reports Had of it in the Traditions of the Indians, and ofthe True Origin and Descent of the Mexicans. Canto XXI: How Zutacap n Calledan Assembly of the Acoma Indians and the Discord That was Among Them, and ofthe Treason They Made. From Canto XXXIII: How Zutancalpo was Found by HisFour Sisters and of the End and Death of Gicombo and Luzcoija. FranciscoN*�ez De Pineda Y Bascu� n (1607 -1682): The Happy Captivity ... FromBook I, Chapter IX: The Beginning of the Captivity. Book III, Chapter XXXI: AFeast. Carlos De Siguenza Y G�ngora. (1645 -1700): From The Misadventuresof Alonso RamYrez: Chapter I: The Motives He Had for Leaving His Country.Work and Travel through New Spain; His Presence in Mexico until Leaving forthe Philippines. From Chapter II: His Departure from Acapulco for thePhilippines; The Route of this Voyage and How He Passed the Time untilCaptured by the English. From Chapter III: A Brief Summary of the Thieveryand Cruelty of These Pirates on Land and Sea Until Arriving in America. SorJuana InUs de la Cruz (1648 -1695): Number 48: In Reply to a Gentleman fromPeru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better be a Man.Number 92: A Philosophical Satire. Number 94: Which Reveals the HonorableAncestry of a High-Born Drunkard. Number 145: She Attempts to Minimize thePraise Occasioned by a Portrait of Herself Inscribed by Truth - Which SheCalls Ardor. Number 146: She Laments Her Fortune, She Hints of Her Aversionto All Vice, and Justifies Her Diversion with the Muses. Number 317Villancico VI, From "Santa Catarina," 1691. Number 367 Loa for theAuto Sacramental The Divine Narcissus Through Allegories. The MiraculousApparition of the Beloved Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadaloupe, at Tepeyacac,Near Mexico City (1649): History of the Miraculous Apparition. A Nahuatl Songto Holy Mary. Records of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico, 1664. Excerptsfrom the Trial on Bernardo de Mendizabel, 1664. Don Antonio de OtermYn(fl.1680). Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. New France: Jerome Lalement(1593 -1673): The Earthquake. Louis de Hennepin (1626 - After 1701): FromDescription of Louisiana, Recently Discovered Southwest of New France, byOrder of His Majesty (1683). Letter to King Louis XIV. From The Manners ofthe Indians: On the Fertility of the Indian Country. Origins of the Indians.Physical Condition of the Indians. Marriages of the Indians. The Obstacles tothe Conversion of the Indians. Indifference of the Indians. Chretian LeClercq (fl.1641 - 95): From New Relation on Gaspesia: The Sun Wept in Grief."I Am Astonished that the French Have so Little Wit". TheChesapeake and Indies: John Smith (1580 - 1631): The General History ofVirginia, New England and the Summer Isles. "Description of NewEngland". Richard Ligon (c.1585 - 1662): A True and Exact History on theIslands on Barbadoes. George Alsop (1636? - 73?): A Character of theProvince on Maryland (1666). John Lederer (1644 - After 1672): Instructionsto Such as Shall March upon Discoveries into the North American Continent(1672). Nathaniel Bacon (1647 - 76): Manifesto Concerning the PresentTroubles in Virginia. James Revel (After 1640s - ? ): The Poor UnhappyTransported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years of Transportationat Virginia in America. New England: Thomas Morton (1579? - 1647?): From NewEnglish Canaan. From Book I: Containing the Originall on the Natives, TheirManners & Customes, with their Tractable Nature and Love Towards theEnglish: Chapter VII: Of their Child-Bearing, and Delivery, and What Mannerof Persons They Are. Chapter. XVI: Of their Acknowledgement of the Creation,and Immortality of the Soule. Chapter XX: That the Salvages Live a ContentedLife. Book II: A Description of the Beauty of the Country: Chapter I. TheGeneral Survey of the Country. Book III. Containing a Description of thePeople that are Planted there, What Remarkable Accidents Have Happened thereSince they Were Setled, What Tenents they Hould, Together with the Practiseon their Church: Chapter. XIV: Of the Revells of New Canaan. Chapter XVI: Howthe 9. Worthies Put Mine Host on Ma-re-Mount in to the Inchaunted Castle atPlimmouth, and Terrified Him with the Monster Briareus. John Winthrop (1588 -1649): From "A Modell of Christian Charity". Winthrop's Journal:History of New England, 1630 - 1649. William Bradford (1590 - 1657): From OfPlymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. From Book I, Chapter IX: Of their Voyage,and How they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod. From BookI, Chapter X: Showing How they Sought Out a Place on Habitation; and WhatBefell them Thereabout. From Book II, Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620:The Mayflower Compact. The Starving Time. Indian Relations. From Book II,Chapter XIV: Anno Domini 1623. End on the "Common Course andCondition". From Book II, Chapter XXVIII: Anno Domini 1637. The PequotWar. From Book II, Chapter XXXII: Anno Domini 1642. A Horrible Case onBestiality. Roger Williams (1603? - 83): From a Key into the Language onAmerica: To My Dear and Well-Beloved Friends and Countrymen. Directions forthe Use of the Language. From Chapter I: Of Salutation. From Chapter VIII: OfDiscourse and Newes (Canonicus' Speech). From Chapter XI: Of Travel. Letter:To the Town of Providence. Thomas Shepard (1605 - 49): From The Autobiographyof Thomas Shepard. Anne Bradstreet (1612? - 72): The Prologue. In Honour ofQueen Elizabeth. The Author to Her Book. The Flesh and the Spirit. To My Dearand Loving Husband. In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, WhoDeceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old. Upon the Burning of OurHouse July 10th, 1666. To My Dear Children. The New England Primer (1683?).Benjamin Church (1639 - 1717): From Entertaining Passages Relating toPhilip's War: The Great Swamp Fight. Reunion with Awashonks. Tactics ofIndian Warfare. Philip's Forces Routed Near Bridgewater. Philip Killed. TheCapture of Annawon. Philip's Regalia. Edward Taylor (1642? - 1729): From GodsDeterminations Touching His Elect; and the Elects Combat in their Conversion,and Coming up to God in Christ, Together with the Comfortable EffectsThereof: The Preface. The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour. The Joy ofChurch Fellowship Rightly Attended. From Occasional Poems: 4. Huswifery. 6.Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children. From Preparatory Meditations: Prologue.First Series: Meditation 8: John 6.51. I am the Living Bread. Meditation 40:1 John 2.2. He is a Propitiation for Our Sin. Second Series: Meditation 43:Rom. 9.5. God Blessed Forever. Samuel Sewall (1652 - 1730): Ph�nomenaQu�dam Apocalyptica (Phenomena Concerning the Apocalypse) (1697). TheSelling of Joseph, a Memorial. Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728): From DecenniumLuctuosum (The Captivity of Hannah Dustan). From Magnalia Christi Americana.From The Negro Christianized. New Netherland: Jacob Steendam (1616 - ?):"The Complaint of New Amsterdam". Henricus Selyns (1636 - 1701):"Bridal Torch". Middle Atlantic: Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651 -1720?): From Circumstantial Geographical Description of Pennsylvania. Letterto Tobias Schumbergius, 1693. Native American Views: From The World TurnedUpside Down: Powhatan's Speech to Captain John Smith, 1609. NarragansettIndians, "Act of Submission" 1644. Mittark, Agreement of Gay HeadIndians Not to Sell Land to the English, 1681. Garangula, Speech to NewFrance's Governor La Barre, 1685. The Coming of the Spanish and the PuebloRevolt: A Hopi Perspective . Part III: The Eighteenth Century: Introduction.Later Colonial Writers of the Americas: Sarah Kemble Knight (1666 - 1727):The Journal on Madame Knight. Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan(1666 - 1715): New Voyages to North America ... Volume I: From Preface.From Letter I: Description of the Passage from France to Canada. From LetterII: Description of the Plantations of Canada. Volume II: A Discourse of theHabit, Houses, Complexion and Temperament of the Savages of North America.From A Short View of the Humors and Customs of the Savages. From An Accountof the Amours and Marriages on the Savages. William Byrd II (1674 - 1744):From The Secret History on the Dividing Line. From The History on theDividing Line. Pierre Franyois-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682 - 1761): FromJournal of a Voyage to North America, Undertaken by the Order of the FrenchKing ...: Letter III: Description of Quebec; Character of its Inhabitants,and the Manner of Living in the French Colony. Letter XXX: Voyage from theAkansas to the Natchez. Description of the Country. Of the River of theYasous. Of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Natchez. Letter XXXI:Description of the Capital of Louisiana. Letter XXXII: Reflections on theGrants. Marie-AndrUe Duplessis du Sainte-HUlYne (1687 - 1760): From TheAnnals of Hotel-Dieu, QuUbec: The Image of Hell. Elisabeth Begon (1696 -1755): The Correspondence of Madame Begon, 1748 - 1753. Richard Lewis (1700?- 1734): A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730. JonathanEdwards (1703 - 58): From Images of Divine Things. "Apostrophe to SarahPierpont". Personal Narrative. Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713 - 55): FromSome Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. AlonsoCarri� De La Vandera (1715?-?): El Lazarillo: A Guide for InexperiencedTravellers between Buenos Aires and Lima (C.1775): Prologue and Dedication toThose Treated Herein. From Chapter XVIII: The Indolence of the Indians. TheOpinion of the Author. The Name Concolorcorvo. From Chapter XXVI: A BriefComparison of the Cities on Lima and Cuzco. Characteristic Aspects. TheResidents of Lima and Mexico. The Dress of the Lima Women. Reasons for TheirVitality. Singular Features, Wedding Beds, Cradles, and HouseholdFurnishings. John Woolman (1720 - 72): From The Journal of John Woolman.Jean-Bernard Bossu (1720 - 92): Travels in the Interior of North America,1751-1762: From Letter II. From Letter XVII. Louis Antione de Bougainville(1729 - 1811): From Adventure in the Wilderness: The American Journals ofLouis Antoine De Bougainville. Rafael LandYvar (1731 - 93): RusticatioMexicana: From the Lakes of Mexico. From Processing of Silver and Gold. FromBirds. From Sports. Contested Visions: Revolution and Nation: BenjaminFranklin (1706 - 90): Epitaph. The Autobiography Part 2. Samson Occom (1727 -92): A Short Narrative of My Life. Lucy Terry (Prince) (1730 - 1821):"Bars Fight". Abigail Smith Adams (1744 - 1818) John Adams (1735 -1826): From Letters of Abigail and John Adams. From The Adams-JeffersonLetters. J. Hector St. John de CrYvecoeur (1735 - 1813): Letters from anAmerican Farmer: From Letter III: What is an American? Letter IX:Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; AMelancholy Scene. Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man. Prince Hall (1735- 1807): A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, atMenotomy. Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809): Common Sense. Thomas Jefferson (1743 -1826): Autobiography (The Declaration of Independence). Notes on the State ofVirginia: From Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal. FromQuery XIV: Laws. From Query XVIII: Manners. Toussaint L'Ouverture (1744? -1803): Proclamations and Letters. Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 97): TheInteresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, theAfrican, Written by Himself. Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820):"Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree ofSelf-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms". Philip Freneau (1752 -1820): "The Rising Glory of America". A Political Litany. Georgethe Third's Soliloquy. To Sir Toby. Lemuel Haynes (1753 - 1833):"Liberty Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality ofSlave-Keeping".Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 84): From Poems on VariousSubjects, Religious and Moral: To M�cenas. To the University on Cambridge,in New England. On Being Brought from Africa to America. On the Death on theRev. Mr. George Whitefield. To the Right Honourable William, Earl ofDartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c.A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W. Letter to Samson Occom. Extant Poem NotIncluded in Poems, 1773: America. Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810):Alcuin Part 1. Bibliography. Index.