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HISTORY FOR READY REFERENCEFROM THE BEST HISTORIANS, BIOGRAPHERS, SPECIALISTSTHEIR OWN WORDS IN A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF HISTORYFOR ALL USES, EXTENDING TO ALL COUNTRIES AND SUBJECTS,AND REPRESENTING FOR BOTH READERS AND STUDENTS THE BETTER ANDNEWER LITERATURE OF HISTORY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEBY J.N.LARNEDWITH NUMEROUS HISTORICAL MAPS FROM ORIGINAL STUDIESAND DRAWINGS BY ALAN C. REILEYIN FIVE VOLUMESVOLUME II-EL DORADO TO GREAVESSPRINGFIELD, MASS.THE C. A. NICHOLS CO., PUBLISHERSMDCCCXCVCOPYRIGHT, 1894.BY J. N. LARNED.The Riversider Press, Cambridge, Mass, U. S. A.Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.LIST OF MAPS.Map of Europe at the close of the Tenth Century, ... To follow page 1020Map of Europe in 1768, ... To follow page 1086Four maps of France, A. D. 1154, 1180, 1814 and 1860, ... To follow page 1168Two maps of Central Europe, A. D. 848 and 888, ... On page 1404Map of Germany at the Peace of Westphalia, ... To follow page 1486Maps of Germany, A. D. 1815 and 1866; of the Netherlands, 1880-1889; and of the Zollverein, ... To follow page 1540LOGICAL OUTLINES, IN COLORS.English history, ... To follow page 730French history, ... To follow page 1158German history, ... To follow page 1428CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES.The Fifth Century, ... On page 1433The Sixth Century, ...On page 1434{769}EL DORADO, The quest of. "When the Spaniards had conquered and pillaged the civilized empires on the table lands of Mexico, Bogota, and Peru, they began to look round for new scenes of conquest, new sources of wealth; the wildest rumours were received as facts, and the forests and savannas, extending for thousands of square miles to the eastward of the cordilleras of the Andes, were covered, in imagination, with populous kingdoms, and
