Note 9 — CHAP. II.
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“The King, Don Manuel, extremely attached to Vespuccius, gave him the command of six ships, with which he sailed on the 10th of May, 1503, and passed along the coast of Africa and Brazil, with the intention of discovering a western passage to the Molucca Islands, (afterwards discovered.) “After entering the Bay of All Saints, he navigated as far as the Abrolhos and the river Curababa. As he had provisions only for twenty months, he took the resolution of returning to Portugal, where he arrived on the 18th of June, 1504.”—Murery Dicc. Grand. Paris, 1699.