INDEX

Æthiopia, 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

Altitudes of heavenly bodies, observations, 44

America, objection of Las Casas and Herrera to the name, xxxix, 76

Animals enumerated as seen in the first voyage, 17, 87

Antarctic Circle, approach to, 39, 45

Antiglia, or Antilla, xxiv, xxxvi n., 29, 83, 107 (see Española)

Astrolabe, 45, 65

Atlantic, passages across, 3, 21, 36, 43, 53

Ayarayte, cacique, 96

Azores, xlii, 41

Badajoz commission, viii n., xv

Bahamas, xxvii

Bahia, xliii, 53

Balboa, Vasco Nuñez 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, xxxviii; 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

Bolaños, 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 Española, 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, xxxiii, 109, 112

Cariaco, gulf, x, 92

Caribs, 32

Carnesecchi, priest who brought news of Geronnica Vespucci, iv

Carvajal, Alonso de, 102

Cassia trees, 29

Cazabi, food of natives, xxiii, xxx, 11

Cerezo, Maria, wife of Vespucci, pension, xv

Chabaca, Pinzon and Solis voyage, xxxiii, 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, xxxiv; proofs of his father's discoveries, xii, 73, 96

Columbus, Fernando, possessed a copy of the printed letters of Vespucci, xxxv, 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, xxxv

Cosmographiæ Introductio, xviii

Course (see Winds)

Crocodiles (see Lagartos)

Cumana, 91

Cuquibacoa (see Coquibacoa)

Curaçoa, 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

Española, 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, xxxviii

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, xxxvii, xxxviii

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 Curaçoa, 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, xxxii

Gorée, 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, xxxiii, 108, 110, 111

Guarapiche, river, 32

Harrisse, Mr., unable to find entries respecting Vespucci, referred to by Muñoz, v n.; established the correct date and direction of the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, xxxiii

Hatteras, Cape, xxvii

Herrera, on the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, xxxii; protest against the name of America, xxxix

Hispaniola (see Española)

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 Española, x, 98-106; intrigues at Xaragua, 101, 102; kidnapping natives, 10, 11; outwitted by Roldan, 105

Honduras coast reached by Pinzon and Solis, xxxiii

Humboldt, opinion of Vespucci, i

Hylacomylus (see Waldzeemüller)

Ignami, name of native food, xxiii, xxx, 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, xxx, 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, xxx, xxxi, 17

Las Casas on the alleged first voyage of Vespucci, i, 68; objection to the name America, xxxix, 76; proofs of the untruthfulness of Vespucci, viii, xxxix, 83, 87, 89, 93, 97, 107; comments on baptisms by Vespucci, 88; his account of the conduct of Hojeda at Española, 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, xxxii, 111

Latitude of Canaria, of landfall on first voyage, 4; of land reached in first voyage, 17; of landfall on second voyage, 22; wrong latitude 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 latitude 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, xxxii, 110; of Antonio Garcia, 109; of Bastidas, 109; of Nicolas Perez, 109

Leaves, habit of chewing, 25, 26

Ledesma, Pedro de, his age, xxxiii; statement that Pinzon and Solis went north, xxxiii, 110; account of, 110 n.

Leon, Ponce de, concession to discover Florida, xxxviii

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, xxxvi

Longitude, alleged observation for, landfall for first voyage, 4

Lorraine, Duke of (see Réné)

Malacca, departure of Vespucci to discover, 53; latitude, 53 n.

Mandraga, 43

Manoel, King of Portugal, voyage of Vespucci by order of, 2

Maracaibo (see San Bartolomé)

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, xxxiv; evidence of, 74, 79; opinion of Vespucci, viii; evidence that Vespucci helped in the Cantino map, xxxvii n.

Mecænas, 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

Muñoz, 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, xxxii; discrepancy between his statement and that of Vespucci respecting the number of ships, supposing Vespucci to have sailed with Pinzon and Solis, xxxiii

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, xxxiv

Parias, name of a province visited by Vespucci in his alleged first voyage, 17; question of the names Parias and Lariab, xxiii, xxx, 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, xxxiii, 109, 110 (see Martyr, Peter)

Pintor, Juan, a deserter from Hojeda, 104, 106

Pinzon, Vicente Yañez, evidence at the lawsuit, xxxii, 109, 111, 113; direction of voyage, xxxiv; projected voyage with Vespucci, xiii; date of voyage with Solis, xxxiii

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 Española by the name of Antilla or Antiglia, xxxvi 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

Réné 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, Bartolomé, 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 Bartolomé, Gulf, 33

San Domingo, Bartolomé 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 Española, 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, xxxii, xxxiii, 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, xxxvi

Trees in Brazil, xli (see Cassia, 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, xxxviii, 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, xxx; theory about the voyage of Pinzon and Solis disproved, xxxii-xxxiv; 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 classical 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 latitudes 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" (Española), 29; complaint of treatment at Española, 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 fictitious, 86; account of visit to Española false, 96, 107, 108; projected voyage with Pinzon, xiii; Hispanicisms in his letter, xix, xx; silence respecting comrades, xx; evidence against first voyage, xxv, xxxiv, xxxv-xxxvi; 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, xxxviii

Vianelo, Hieronimo, Venetian Ambassador, letter giving an account of a voyage of Juan de la Cosa, xiii, 58-61

Voyages (see Four Voyages)

Waldseemüller, Martin, or Hylacomylus, the editor of Cosmographiæ Introductio, suggested the name of America, xviii, xliii

Winds, term used for courses, 19

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

Yaquimo, port in Española, Hojeda at, 33, 80, 97, 98

Yuca, xxiii, xxx, 11, 13, 14 (see Juca)

Yucatan, iii, xxxii