The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci Part 6

_Rodrigo de Bastidas_ said that Yanez and Juan Diaz de Solis went to discover below Veragua. He did not know how much they discovered, but it is all one coast with that which was first discovered by the Admiral.

_Nicolas Perez_ said that the Admiral, in that voyage when he went to Veragua, discovered Cape Gracias a Dios, and that all beyond that is discovered, was discovered by Yanez and Juan Diaz de Solis; that this appears by the sea-chart drawn by them, and that by it all who go to those parts are guided.

_Pedro de Ledesma_,[158] pilot, said that he went in company of Vicente Yanez and Juan Solis by order of their Highnesses, and saw what Vicente Yanez and Juan de Solis discovered beyond the land of Veragua, in a part towards the north,[159] all that which has been made known up to the present time, from the island of Guanaja towards the north; and that these lands are called Chabaca and Pintigron, and that they reached in a northerly direction as far as 23-1/2 degrees, and that in this part the said Don Cristobal Colon neither went, nor discovered, nor saw.

LAS CASAS ON THE VOYAGE OF PINZON AND SOLIS.[160]

After the Admiral left the solitude and the hardships he suffered in Jamaica and came to Castille, it being known what he had discovered, there presently agreed together one Juan Diaz de Solis and Vicente Yanez Pinzon (brother of Martin A. Pinzon, of whom we said that he helped the Admiral to fit out in the town of Palos, and went with him, taking Vicente Yanez and another brother, when he sailed on the first voyage to discover these Indies, as has been explained in the first book) to set out and discover, and to continue the route which the Admiral had left on his fourth and last voyage of discovery. These went to take up the thread from the island or islands of Guanajes, which we said that the Admiral had discovered in his last voyage, and they turned to the east.[161]

These two discoverers sailed[162] (as may be gathered from the statement of witnesses called by the Fiscal in the lawsuit with the second Admiral) towards the west from the Guanajes, and must have arrived near the Golfo Dolce, although they did not see it because it is concealed, but they saw the openings made by the sea into the land, which contains the Golfo Dolce and that of Yucatan, and it is like a great gulf or bay. (The mariners give the name of bay to the sea that is between two lands in the form of an open port, which would be a port if it was not that it is very large, but being very capacious and not closed, they call it a bay, the _i_ and _a_ in _bahia_ being p.r.o.nounced separately.) Thus, as they saw that great angle made by the sea between the two lands, the one which is on the left hand having its back to the east, and this is the coast which contains the port of Caballos and in front of it the Golfo Dolce, and the other on the right hand, which is the coast of the province of Yucatan. It appeared to them to be a great bay, and Vicente Yanez, therefore (in the sworn deposition he made in the said lawsuit, when he was called a witness by the Fiscal), said that, sailing from the island of Guanajes, the coast stretching along, they discovered a great bay to which they gave the name of the "Great Bay of the Nativity", and thence they discovered the hills of Caria,[163] and other lands further on.

According to the other witnesses, they then turned north.[164] From all this it appears certain that they then discovered a great part of the kingdom of Yucatan, but as afterwards there was no one who would continue that discovery, nothing more was known of the edifices of that kingdom, whence the territory and grandeur of the kingdoms of New Spain might easily have been discovered. But they were found by chance from the island of Cuba, as, please G.o.d, will be set forth in Book III of this history.

And it must here be remarked that these discoverers were chiefly actuated in their enterprize by emulation of the Admiral, and of what he had discovered before, in the service of the Sovereigns. As if the Admiral had not been the first to open the gates of the ocean which had been closed for so many thousands of ages before, and had not shown the light by which all might see how to discover. The Royal Fiscal devoted all his studies to prove that the parts of the mainland discovered by the other explorers were distinct from those which the Admiral had discovered, and he would make a point that the mainland was not so long; his object being to diminish the Admiral's credit, and to make out that the Sovereigns were less obliged to recognise the inestimable services he had performed, and to fulfil the promises they had made, and by which they were bound so justly and with such good reason. This was a great injustice.

With reference to this design, the Fiscal put the question whether the witnesses knew that the discoveries made by others were distinct from those made by the Admiral. For the most part he got the answers he wanted from the sailors, who said it was a different land. But they were not asked if it was all one mainland, nor did they deny that. But others, especially two honourable men whom I knew well, the one Rodrigo de Bastidas, of whom we have already treated, the other a pilot named Andres de Morales, understanding the injury that the prosecutor was trying to do the Admiral, deposed many times, on different occasions in the course of the lawsuit, that the lands others had discovered were to the west of those discovered by the Admiral, but that the whole was one continuous land. True that Vicente Yanez and Juan de Solis went to discover beyond Veragua, along that coast, but all the land that they or any others discovered of the region called the main was all one coast, and continuous with what the Admiral discovered first. Others, besides these two, say it is all one coast from Paria, though provinces have different names, and there are also different languages. This was then declared by witnesses who had been there, and knew it well by having used their own eyes, and now it would be needless to seek further for witnesses than in the grocers' shops in Seville. Thus it cannot be denied to the Admiral, except with great injustice, that as he was the first discoverer of those Indies, so he was also of the whole of our mainland, and to him is due the credit, by discovering the province of Paria, which is a part of all that land. For it was he that put the thread into the hands of the rest, by which they found the clew to more distant parts. Consequently, his rights ought most justly to be complied with and respected throughout all that land, even if the region was still more extensive, just as they should be respected in Espanola and the other islands. For it was not necessary for him to go to every part, any more than it is necessary in taking possession of an estate, as the jurists hold.

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INDEX

=aethiopia=, coast of, 35, 41, 43, 53 =Africa=, west coast, Vespucci on, xli, 35, 43, 53 =Africus=, a course, 52 =Albizi=, Francisco degli, a tall man, natives compared to, 27 =Alseshij=, a name in the Vianelo letter, 59 =Alt.i.tudes= of heavenly bodies, observations, 44 =America=, objection of Las Casas and Herrera to the name, x.x.xix, 76 =Animals= enumerated as seen in the first voyage, 17, 87 =Antarctic Circle=, approach to, 39, 45 =Antiglia=, or Antilla, xxiv, x.x.xvi _n._, 29, 83, 107 (see =Espanola=) =Astrolabe=, 45, 65 =Atlantic=, pa.s.sages across, 3, 21, 36, 43, 53 =Ayarayte=, cacique, 96 =Azores=, xlii, 41

=Badajoz= commission, viii _n._, xv =Bahamas=, xxvii =Bahia=, xliii, 53 =Balboa=, Vasco Nunez de, xv =Bandini=, his Life of Vespucci, ii =Baptisms= performed by Vespucci and his companions, 17; comments of Las Casas, 88 =Bastidas=, Rodrigo de, evidence respecting the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, 109, 113 =Bello=, Pero, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Benvenuti=, Benvenuto di Domenico, requested Vespucci to write to Soderini, bearer of the letter, 2, 56 =Berardi=, Juan, employed Vespucci, iv, 31; his contract to supply ships, iv, v; suggestion that his ships were used for the voyage of Vespucci, xxv =Bermuda= (see =Iti=), first appearance on the map, x.x.xviii; discovered by Juan Bermudez, _ib._ =Besechiece=, on the coast of Africa, xli, 35 (see =Biseghier=) =Birds= seen in the first voyage, 17; comments of Las Casas, 88 =Biseghier=, or Bezequiche, 43 =Bobadilla=, xv =Bolanos=, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Book= of Vespucci (see _Four Voyages_) =Brabo=, Hernan, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Brasil= in Espanola, Hojeda at, 80, 97, 98 =Brazil=, coast of, Vespucci on, xii, xli, 36; natives, 36, 37, 45, 46; cannibals, 37, 38, 47; trees, 39, 48; fort built, 55

=Cabot=, Sebastian, as to observations of Vespucci, viii _n._ =Cabral=, Pedro Alvarez, met Portuguese expedition on return from India, xli _n._ =Cadiz=, Vespucci sent as a commercial agent to, iv; departure of Vespucci from, 3, 4, 21, 75; return to, 21, 30; return of Hojeda to, 34; slaves sold at, 19, 21 =Cahay=, 104 =Calicut=, 53 =Camarona=, province, Pinzon and Solis at, 109 =Canaria Gran=, Vespucci at, distance from Lisbon, 4, 21; Hojeda touched at, 32, 85; Vespucci at, with the Portuguese, 35, 43 =Cancer=, Tropic of, 17 =Canna fistola=, tree, 39 =Cannibals=, 32, 37, 38, 47 =Canoe=, chase of, in the Gulf of Paria, 23 =Canopus=, 49 =Canovai=, Life of Vespucci by, iii =Cape Verde=, 43, 44 =Cape Verde Isles=, 21, 28, 53, 69 =Capricorn=, Tropic, 39, 48 =Carabi=, a native word mentioned by Vespucci, xxiii, xxix, 17, 89 =Caria=, mountains, x.x.xiii, 109, 112 =Cariaco=, gulf, x, 92 =Caribs=, 32 =Carnesecchi=, priest who brought news of Geronnica Vespucci, iv =Carvajal=, Alonso de, 102 =Ca.s.sia= trees, 29 =Cazabi=, food of natives, xxiii, x.x.x, 11 =Cerezo=, Maria, wife of Vespucci, pension, xv =Chabaca=, Pinzon and Solis voyage, x.x.xiii, 109-10 =Chart=, 45 (see =Padron Real=), 64, 65 =Climates= as divisions of the globe referred to by Vespucci, 4, 17, 35 =Coelho=, Gonzalo, expedition to Brazil, Vespucci not with him, xlii, 52 _n._ =Columba=, name proposed by Las Casas instead of America, 76 =Columbus=, Christopher: Government broke faith with, v Vespucci contracted for voyages of, vi Mentioned once by Vespucci, vi, xii, 29 Letter to his son in which Vespucci is mentioned, 57 True discoverer of the mainland, 68, 69, 75, 78, 113, 114 At San Domingo when Hojeda arrived on the coast, 98 =Columbus=, Diego, lawsuit, efforts made to show that others made discoveries besides the Admiral, x.x.xiv; proofs of his father's discoveries, xii, 73, 96 =Columbus=, Fernando, possessed a copy of the printed letters of Vespucci, x.x.xv, 84 =Coquibacoa=, province, 33, 91, 96, 98 =Cosa=, Juan de la, with Hojeda, viii, 31, 71, 73, 85, 96; account of a voyage in Vianelo's letter, xiii, xiv, 58-61; called "Juan Vizcaino", 81, 100; in a boat to parley with Roldan, 105; map, xi; evidence against Vespucci from map of, x.x.xv _Cosmographiae Introductio_, xviii =Course= (see =Winds=) =Crocodiles= (see =Lagartos=) =c.u.mana=, 91 =Cuquibacoa= (see =Coquibacoa=) =Curacoa=, isle (see =Isla de los Gigantes=), 33

=Dante=, quoted by Vespucci, vii, 3 =D'Avezac=, his opinion of Vespucci, i =Dominica= (see =Iti=) =Drago=, Boca del, x, 30, 32, 72, 79, 87; on the map of Juan de la Cosa, xi

=Escobar=, Diego de, sent by Roldan to negotiate with Hojeda, 103, 104 =Espanola=, arrival of Vespucci at, 29; Hojeda at, x, 33, 98, 106 =Ethiopia=, coast, 35, 41, 43, 53 =Ethiopic Promontory=, so called by Ptolemy, 43

=Ferdinand=, King, alleged to have sent Vespucci, 2, 3, 35, 72; his bad appointments, xiv, xv =Fernando Noronha=, isles, shipwreck at, xlii, 53, 54 =Fish=, loaves made of, 14, 87 =Fishery= of "parchi" on the African coast, 35 "=Flechado=," Puerto, of Hojeda, 33 =Florida=, concession to Ponce de Leon, evidence against Vespucci from, x.x.xviii =Fonseca=, Bishop of Palencia, sent Hojeda, vii, 31, 70, 77; his licence to Hojeda, 77, 101, 106; his opinion of Vespucci, viii; his bad appointments, xv; maps shown to Peter Martyr by, x.x.xvii, x.x.xviii =Food= of natives, 11 =Fortunate Isles=, 4, 43 _Four Voyages_, book supposed to have been written by Vespucci, xxi, 11, 16, 39, 51, 55 =Fruits=, 17, 88; beer made from, 24 =Fuoco=, isle, 21

=Galitut= (see =Calicut=) =Garcia=, Antonio, a pilot, his evidence, 109; Cristoval of Palos' evidence, 30 _n._ =Gigantes=, Islas de, xi, 31, 33; same as Curacoa, 33; on map of Juan de la Cosa, xi (see =Island of Giants=) =Giocondo=, Giuliano di Bartolomeo di, sent to bring Vespucci to Portugal, xi, 35; translated Medici letter into Latin, xv, 52; not mentioned in Portuguese archives, xi =Goes=, Damian de, silence respecting Vespucci, xl =Golfo Dolce=, 111 =Gomara=, his statement that many vessels took advantage of the concession in breach of the rights granted to Columbus, v;

statement that Pinzon was on the Honduras coast before Columbus, x.x.xii =Goree=, or =Besechiece= (which see), 35 _n._ =Gracia=, name given by Columbus, 68, 70 =Gracias a Dios=, Cape, 109 =Guadalupe= (see =Iti=) =Guanaja=, isle, Pinzon and Solis at, x.x.xiii, 108, 110, 111 =Guarapiche=, river, 32

=Harrisse=, Mr., unable to find entries respecting Vespucci, referred to by Munoz, v _n._; established the correct date and direction of the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, x.x.xiii =Hatteras=, Cape, xxvii =Herrera=, on the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, x.x.xii; protest against the name of America, x.x.xix =Hispaniola= (see =Espanola=) =Hojeda=, Alonso de, his evidence respecting his voyage, 30; dispatch of his expedition, vi, 31, 85; had the chart of Columbus, 32; voyage, x, 32, 34; dispute with Roldan, 34; sent out by Fonseca, 31, 70, 79; date of his departure, 78; Las Casas on his voyage, 85, 91; conduct at Espanola, x, 98-106; intrigues at Xaragua, 101, 102; kidnapping natives, 10, 11; outwitted by Roldan, 105 =Honduras= coast reached by Pinzon and Solis, x.x.xiii =Humboldt=, opinion of Vespucci, i =Hylacomylus= (see =Waldzeemuller=)

=Ignami=, name of native food, xxiii, x.x.x, 11, 13, 14 =Iguana=, description of, 14 =Illanes=, Pedro de, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Indians=, Vespucci's account of, at his first landfall, 5; appearance, arms, wars, women, large houses, 8, 9; burial, food, cannibals, 10, 11; dealings with, at a village like Venice, 12; encounter with, 13; hospitality, curiosity, 16; at the "finest harbour in the world", 18; encounters with, at Iti, 19, 20, 94; carried off to sell as slaves, 21, 95; at Trinidad, 24; habit of chewing leaves, 25, 26; make beer from fruit, 24; on the Isle of Giants, 27 (see =Brazil=) =Irving=, Washington, opinion of Vespucci, i =Island=, natives chewing green leaves on, 25, 26; of Giants, natives, adventure with, xxiv, 27, 96 =Iti=, islands, 19; encounters with natives, 19, 20, 94; name, 19 _n._; natives carried off as slaves, 21, 95; loss of Spaniards at, 21; believed by Las Casas to be Dominica or Guadalupe, 93; supposed by Varnhagen to be Bermuda, xxvii

=Jocundus= (see =Giocondo=) =Juca=, name of food of natives, xxiii, x.x.x, 11 (see =Yoca=)

=La Ballena=, Gulf of, 68 (see =Paria=) =Lagartos=, or crocodiles, 91 =Landfall= of alleged first voyage, 4; of Hojeda's voyage, 21, 22; of Portuguese voyage, 35, 36, 44 =Lariab=, name in Italian edition for _Parias_, xxiii, x.x.x, x.x.xi, 17 =Las Casas= on the alleged first voyage of Vespucci, i, 68; objection to the name America, x.x.xix, 76; proofs of the untruthfulness of Vespucci, viii, x.x.xix, 83, 87, 89, 93, 97, 107; comments on baptisms by Vespucci, 88; his account of the conduct of Hojeda at Espanola, x, 98-106; evidence from Roldan that the encounter, when one Spaniard was killed and about twenty wounded, was during Hojeda's voyage, xxix, 81; on the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, x.x.xii, 111 =Lat.i.tude= of Canaria, of landfall on first voyage, 4; of land reached in first voyage, 17; of landfall on second voyage, 22; wrong lat.i.tude for coast of Spanish main, 29; of Besechiece, 35; of landfall on coast of Brazil, 36; of Cape St. Augustine, viii _n._, 38; beyond the Tropic of Capricorn, 39, 45; of land sighted far south, 40; marvellous lat.i.tude for Malacca, 53; of the fort on the coast of Brazil, 55 =Lawsuit= of Diego Columbus, evidence of Hojeda, 30; of Pinzon, 109; of Ledesma, x.x.xii, 110; of Antonio Garcia, 109; of Bastidas, 109; of Nicolas Perez, 109 =Leaves=, habit of chewing, 25, 26 =Ledesma=, Pedro de, his age, x.x.xiii; statement that Pinzon and Solis went north, x.x.xiii, 110; account of, 110 _n._ =Leon=, Ponce de, concession to discover Florida, x.x.xviii =Linares=, Toribio de, detained Hojeda, 104 =Lisbon=, Vespucci at, when he wrote to Soderini, vii, 2; distance from Gran Canaria, 4; Vespucci sailed from, xi, 35; return, 41; sailed a second time, xlii, 52; return, 56; distance to equator, 50; Vespucci at, when the Cantino map was drawn, x.x.xvi =Longitude=, alleged observation for, landfall for first voyage, 4 =Lorraine=, Duke of (see =Rene=)

=Malacca=, departure of Vespucci to discover, 53; lat.i.tude, 53 _n._ =Mandraga=, 43 =Manoel=, King of Portugal, voyage of Vespucci by order of, 2 =Maracaibo= (see =San Bartolome=) =Maracapana=, 91, 96 =Margarita=, isle, x, 30, 72, 73, 89, 91, 96; on the map of Juan de la Cosa, xi =Martyr=, Peter, direction of the voyage age of Pinzon and Solis fixed by his mention of Chabaca and Pintigron, x.x.xiv; evidence of, 74, 79; opinion of Vespucci, viii; evidence that Vespucci helped in the Cantino map, x.x.xvii _n._ =Mecaenas=, alluded to by Vespucci, vii, 2 =Medici Letter=, xii, xv, 42; editions, xvii, xviii =Medici=, Lorenzo Pietro Francesco, iv, xii, xv, 42 =Melaccha= (see =Malacca=) =Mendez=, Diego, 57 =Mini=, Lisabetta, mother of Vespucci, iii =Montoya=, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Morales=, Andres de, evidence of, 96, 97, 113 =Munoz=, opinion of Vespucci, i; mention of entries respecting Vespucci, v =Myrrh=, 39

=Natives= (see =Indians, Brazil=) =Nativity=, Bay of, named by Pinzon and Solis, 109, 112 =Navarrete=, opinion of Vespucci, i; suggested Tristan d'Acunha as the southern land of Vespucci, 40 _n._ =New World=, coast of Brazil so called by Vespucci, xvi-xviii, 42 =Niccolini=, Donato, sent to Spain with Vespucci, iv

=Orinoco=, Hojeda off the mouth of, x =Ovando=, xiv =Oviedo=, statement that Pinzon was on the Honduras coast before Columbus, x.x.xii; discrepancy between his statement and that of Vespucci respecting the number of ships, supposing Vespucci to have sailed with Pinzon and Solis, x.x.xiii

=Padron Real=, chart so called, corrected periodically, to be kept at Seville for reference, 65 =Parchi= (see =Fishery=) =Paria=, visited by Hojeda, x, 30, 31; discovered by Columbus, 68, 71, 73, 75, 79, 80; gulf of, 32; on the map of Juan de la Cosa, xi; Pinzon and Solis sailed towards, x.x.xiv =Parias=, name of a province visited by Vespucci in his alleged first voyage, 17; question of the names _Parias_ and _Lariab_, xxiii, x.x.x, 74 _n._, 87 =Pearls=, 29, 48, 76, 91 =Pedrarias=, xiv; Giovanni Vespucci as pilot with, xv =Penalosa=, Francisco de, uncle of Las Casas, 77 =Perez=, Nicolas, evidence of, 109 =Pilot Major=, appointment of Vespucci, xiv, 64; to teach the pilots, 64 =Pilots=, with Hojeda, 31; orders respecting, 64, 65; qualifications of, ix; Giovanni Vespucci appointed, xv =Pinelo=, Treasurer, receipt for Vespucci, of money to pay sailors, 5 =Pintigron=, in voyage of Pinzon and Solis, x.x.xiii, 109, 110 (see =Martyr=, Peter) =Pintor=, Juan, a deserter from Hojeda, 104, 106 =Pinzon=, Vicente Yanez, evidence at the lawsuit, x.x.xii, 109, 111, 113; direction of voyage, x.x.xiv; projected voyage with Vespucci, xiii; date of voyage with Solis, x.x.xiii =Pliny=, quoted by Vespucci, vii, 2, 48 =Policletus=, vii, 48 =Portugal=, King of (Manoel), sent for Vespucci, xi, 34 (see =Vespucci=); Vespucci hoped the King would return his journal, 51 =Portuguese= called Espanola by the name of _Antilla_ or _Antiglia_, x.x.xvi _n._, 29 _n._, 107; archives silent respecting Vespucci, xl; voyages of Vespucci with, xl-xliii, 34-56 =Ptolemy=, Vespucci mentions him as having called Cape Verde the "Ethiopic Promontory", 43 =Puerto Flechado=, x

=Rene II=, Duke of Lorraine, Latin edition of the Vespucci letter dedicated to, xii, xviii, 1 _n._, 69, 71, 84 =Ringmann=, xliii =Rivers=, inundated mouths, at landfall of Hojeda's voyage, 22, 32 =Robertson=, opinion of Vespucci, i =Roldan=, Bartolome, with Hojeda, 71 =Roldan=, Francisco, dispute with Hojeda, 34, 78, 80-81; report to Columbus, 81; sent by Columbus to watch Hojeda, 98; outwits Hojeda, 105; evidence as to killed and wounded in Hojeda's voyage, xxix, 81 =Roquemes=, in the Canaries, 96

=Salvador=, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =St. Augustine=, Cape, xli, viii _n._, 38, 39 =San Bartolome=, Gulf, 33 =San Domingo=, Bartolome Roldan a citizen of, 71; Andres de Morales at, 96; news of Hojeda brought to Columbus at, 98, 101; arrival of ships of Hojeda at San Domingo does not refer to the first voyage, when Vespucci was with him, 30 _n._ (see =Espanola=, =Antilla=) =San Lucar=, 69, 75 =San Roman=, Cape, 33 =Santa=, isles, name given by Columbus, 68, 70 =Santa Maria=, Port of, 70 =Santarem=, Visconde, found no trace of the name of Vespucci in Portuguese archives, xi, xl _n._ =Serra Leone=, xlii, 41, 53 =Seville=, Vespucci at, iv, xi, xii, 34, 35; pilots to be taught at, 64; Hojeda known at, 70, 78; Ledesma born at, 110 _n._ =Soderini=, Pietro, Gonfaloniere of Florence, xii, xviii, 1, 2 =Solis=, Juan Diaz de, voyage with Pinzon, xiv, x.x.xii, x.x.xiii, 107, 110, 111, 113; pension of Vespucci's widow paid out of salary, xv =South Georgia=, supposed to have been sighted by Vespucci, xlii _n._, 40 =Stars=, observations in the South Hemisphere, 39, 41; southern stars, 40; _Canopus_, 49

=Tampico=, Varnhagen places Vespucci at, x.x.xvi =Trees= in Brazil, xli (see =Ca.s.sia=, =Canna fistola=, =Brazil=) =Trinidad=, isle discovered by Columbus, 68, 72; visited by Hojeda, 30, 32 =Tristan d'Acunha=, xlii _n._, 40 _n._ =Truxillo=, Diego de, detained by Hojeda, 104

=Ulysses=, death of, in Dante, referred to by Vespucci, 3 =Ursa= Major and Minor lost sight of, 39, 40

=Varnhagen=, his work to rehabilitate Vespucci, ii, xxvi, xxvii, x.x.xviii, xliv; purchase of Italian edition of Vespucci's letter, xix; his theory of Vespucci's first voyage, xxvi; theory that _Iti_ was Bermuda disproved, xxvii; theory about Little Venice disproved, xxviii; theory about Lariab, x.x.x; theory about the voyage of Pinzon and Solis disproved, x.x.xii-x.x.xiv; theory that Vespucci remained out after Hojeda returned disproved, 30 _n._ =Vela=, Cabo de la, Hojeda's furthest point, x, 33, 90, 96, 97; on the map of Juan de la Cosa, xi =Velasquez=, Juan, 81, 100 =Venecia=, Gulf of, 31, 33 =Venezuela=, x, 33, 91, 96, 98 =Venice=, village built on piles like, xxviii, 12, 86 =Veragua=, 109, 110, 113 =Verde=, Cape, xli, 43, 53 =Vespucci=, Amerigo, texts of his letters published by Varnhagen, ii; life by Bandini, ii; life by Canovai, iii; Latin letter to his father, iii; family, iii, iv; employed by Medici and sent to Spain, employed to wind up affairs of Berardi, iv; provision contractor, v; resolution to give up commercial pursuits and go to sea, vi, 2, 3, 71; address to Soderini, 1; promoter of the voyage of Hojeda, vii, 21; smattering of cla.s.sical learning, vii; character, viii; no claim to be considered a pilot, ix; not mentioned in Portuguese archives, xi; interview with Columbus, xii, xiii, 57; spurious letters of, iii _n._, xii _n._; book alleged to have been written by, xxi, 11, 16, 39, 51, 55; summary of alleged first voyage, xxii; course and distance, first voyage, 4; excursion into the interior, 15; statement as to lat.i.tudes and distances run, 17; sojourn in the "finest harbour in the world", 18; account of proceedings at Iti, 19-21; return from first voyage, 21; second voyage, vi, 21; adventure on the Isle of Giants, 27, 28; arrival at "Antiglia" (Espanola), 29; complaint of treatment at Espanola, 30, 83, 107; with Hojeda, viii, 31, 69, 71, 72, 73, 85; sent for by the King of Portugal, 34; sailed from Lisbon, 35; return, 41; letter to Medici, 42; boasts of his knowledge, of cosmography, 44; fanciful account of stars, 50; desire that the King of Portugal would return his journal, 51; departure on last Portuguese voyage, 52; abuse of his commander, 53, 56; mistake of Vianelo respecting, xiii, 58; letter of naturalization, xiii, 61; appointment as chief pilot, xiv, 63-67; Las Caras on his first voyage, 68, 69; injury to Columbus, 82, 83, 85; accounts of natives fict.i.tious, 86; account of visit to Espanola false, 96, 107, 108; projected voyage with Pinzon, xiii; Hispanicisms in his letter, xix, xx; silence respecting comrades, xx; evidence against first voyage, xxv, x.x.xiv, x.x.xv-x.x.xvi; death of, xv =Vespucci=, Nastagio (Anastasio), father of Amerigo, iii =Vespucci=, Antonio, brother, iv, xv, 56 =Vespucci=, Bartolomeo, nephew, iv =Vespucci=, Giorgio Antonio, friar of St. Mark, master of Amerigo and Soderini, iii, 2 =Vespucci=, Geronimo, brother, iv =Vespucci=, Giovanni, nephew, became a pilot, iv; evidence as to his uncle's observations, viii _n._; appointed pilot, xv; Peter Martyr intimate with, x.x.xviii =Vianelo=, Hieronimo, Venetian Amba.s.sador, letter giving an account of a voyage of Juan de la Cosa, xiii, 58-61 _Voyages_ (see _Four Voyages_)

=Waldseemuller=, Martin, or =Hylacomylus=, the editor of _Cosmographiae Introductio_, suggested the name of America, xviii, xliii =Winds=, term used for courses, 19

=Xaragua=, Hojeda at, 83, 100; Roldan at, 100, 103