in one collection, so large a body of pioneer narrative. No subsequent
sources can have quite the intellectual interest, none quite the
sentimental value, which attaches to these early narrations, springing
direct from the brains and hearts of the nation's founders.

_Sacra recognosces annalibus eruta priscis._

J. FRANKLIN JAMESON.

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C.




NOTE


Special acknowledgments and thanks are due to the representatives of the
late Arthur Middleton Reeves, who have kindly permitted the use of his
translations of the Vinland sagas, originally printed in his _Finding of
Wineland the Good_, published in London by the Clarendon Press in 1890;
to the President and Council of the Hakluyt Society, for permission to
use Sir Clements Markham's translation of the Journal of Columbus's first
voyage, printed in Vol. LXXXVI. of the publications of that Society
(London, 1893), and that of Dr. Chanca's letter and of the letter of
Columbus respecting his fourth voyage, by the late Mr. R.H. Major, in
their second and forty-third volumes, _Select Letters of Columbus_
(London, 1847, 1870); to the Honorable John Boyd Thacher, of Albany, for
permission to use his version of Las Casas's narrative of the third
voyage, as printed by him in his _Christopher Columbus_ (New York, 1904),