By Clements Robert Markham, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci
Comprises the next goods, translated with notes and an creation: Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a 'magnificent lord' - Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici - proof of Alonzo de Hojeda respecting his voyage of 1499 - Account of the voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by way of Navarrete - Letter of the Admiral Christopher Columbus to his son - Letter of Vianelo to the Seigneury of Venice - Letter of naturalization in want of Vespucci - Appointment of Amerigo Vespucci as leader pilot - Chapters from Las Casas, which debate the statements of Vespucci - facts respecting the voyage of Pinzon and Solis - Las Casas at the voyage of Pinzon and Solis; Index. this can be a new print-on-demand hardback variation of the quantity first released in 1894.
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Vespucci may be acquitted of having contemplated so great an injustice. It is possible that he never intended that his letters should be published. He may only have desired to increase his consequence among his own countrymen. But whatever his intention may have been, he committed a fraud with a dishonest purpose, and it is no extenuation that he did xl INTRODUCTION. not contemplate the full extent of the injustice it has caused. The investigation of Vespucci's statements contained in the first and second voyages destroys all confidence in his unsupported word, when we proceed to examine his account of the voyages alleged to have been made by him in Portuguese ships.
C. de espera. y. de Brasil. y. de giganles. C. de la mota. CANTINO MAP. Tamarique. ilha Rigua. boacoya. golfo del unficismo. montansis albissima. ylha do Brasil. ylha do Giganta. Costa de gcnte brava. J. DE LA COSA. p. flechado. aldea de turma. costa paieja. m. tajado. 3 echeo. Campina. ylhas de Sana. G. de las Pcrla. Margaleda. tres hr. boca del drago. CANTING MAP. Rio de fonseca. Cabo de las Perlas. Ilha de la Kapossa. Golfo de las Perlas. terra de paria. / tres testigos. boca del drago. Six of the names are the same, all the rest are different.
The word /// appears to have been an invention of Vespucci: perhaps he was thinking of the old Italian form ///("gone")—which he uses in its proper sense in his second voyage—or of Hayti, the native name for Espanola. There are two, or perhaps three, incidents in the story of the alleged first voyage which happened in XXV1I1 INTRODUCTION. the voyage when Vespucci was with Hojeda. The first is the village built on piles over the water. Such a village was discovered by Hojeda at the entrance of the Gulf of Maracaibo, and called Little Venice, or Venezuela.