Excerpt from The Treasure Finders: Or How the Adventurers of Four Countries Sought a New Land The men who found America - who sailed the unknown seas, traversed mysterious forests, and came upon mighty rivers which flowed they knew not whither, were heroes of daring. Their lives were full of excitement, and the adventures which be'fell. Them - the dangers they faced, the mutinies and plots they quelled, the strange sights they saw -form stirring chapters in the history of our coun try. The following stories deal with the romances of discovery and exploration. As a noted historian has said, no boy who has made friends with Robin son Crusoe, will fail to be at home with Champlain and Drake; no girl at all familiar with the heroines of the past, will forget the picturesqueness of Queen Isabella. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.