A history of the United States for schools . ast ofBrazil south of the equator. After some years it wasput upon maps. At first it was equivalent to Brazil;but it came to be equivalent to South America, and wasfinally applied to the northern continent also. 20. The Work of Discovery Completed. Vespuciusmade three more voyages. He returned to the ser-vice of Spain, was advanced to the highest position inthe Spanish ma-rine, and diedin February,1512. Five years after hisdeath a Euro-pean ship forthe first timesailed throughthe Indian Ocean and onto the east-ern shores of ^^^^f^/W ^-^China. It was
A history of the United States for schools . ast ofBrazil south of the equator. After some years it wasput upon maps. At first it was equivalent to Brazil;but it came to be equivalent to South America, and wasfinally applied to the northern continent also. 20. The Work of Discovery Completed. Vespuciusmade three more voyages. He returned to the ser-vice of Spain, was advanced to the highest position inthe Spanish ma-rine, and diedin February,1512. Five years after hisdeath a Euro-pean ship forthe first timesailed throughthe Indian Ocean and onto the east-ern shores of ^^^^f^/W ^-^China. It wasa Portugueseship. Thus, in1517, it wasproved to be along way from China to the coasts visited by Columbusand Vespucius. In 1513, Balboa had lookeddown from a lofty peak in Darien upon what pacificwe now know as the Pacific Ocean. In 1519, di^scoveTedFerdinand Magellan, a Portuguese captain in ^^command of five Spanish ships, sailed fromSpain to find a passage through the Vespucius continent, ^ From Navarretes Colecciott de Viages, torn. 36 INTRODUCTORY. Ch. II. and a westward route to the Indian Ocean. He passedthrough the strait that bears his name, and in spite ofmutiny, scurvy, and starvation, crossed the vast Pacific,in the most astonishing voyage that ever was made. Hewas killed by savages in the Philippine Islands, but oneof his ships arrived in Spain in 1522, after completingthe first circumnavigation of the earth. In spite of this voyage of Magellan the idea of a con-Slow com- nection between America and Asia was slow inthfworkof disappearing. Within forty years from thediscovery, death of Columbus the shape of South Americawas quite well known, but the knowledge of NorthAmerica advanced much more slowly. Many who be-lieved it to be distinct from Asia regarded it as merelya thin barrier of land through which a strait into the
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