A history of the United States for schools . t necessary to adopt some rule by which Splinand Portugal might be prevented from quarreling oversuch coasts as their mariners might discover. The rulefinally adopted in 1494 was sanctioned by Pope AlexanderVI. A meridian was selected 370 leagues west of the^^ ^. , Cape Verde Islands, and was called the Line The Line of ? Demarca- of Demarcation. All heathen coasts thathad been discovered, or that might be discov-ered, to the east of that line were to be at the disposal ofPortugal; all to the west of it were to belong to , we have seen how
A history of the United States for schools . t necessary to adopt some rule by which Splinand Portugal might be prevented from quarreling oversuch coasts as their mariners might discover. The rulefinally adopted in 1494 was sanctioned by Pope AlexanderVI. A meridian was selected 370 leagues west of the^^ ^. , Cape Verde Islands, and was called the Line The Line of ? Demarca- of Demarcation. All heathen coasts thathad been discovered, or that might be discov-ered, to the east of that line were to be at the disposal ofPortugal; all to the west of it were to belong to , we have seen how Gama came back from Hindu-Voyageof Stan in 1499, loaded with treasures. Within aCabrai. £g^y mouths, a fleet of thirteen Portuguese ships,commanded by Cabrai, started for Hindustan. Instead §i8. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. 33 of hugging the African coast, Cabral kept out to seaperhaps further than he reahzed, and on April 22, 1500,he came upon land to starboard. It was the Braziliancoast near Porto Seguro, and Cabral was right in believ-. AMERICUS ing that it lay east of the Line of Demarcation. Thatwas the way in which Brazil came to be a Portuguesecountry, while all the rest of the New World fell to theshare of Spain as far as she was able to occupy it. Cabral sent one of his ships back to Lisbon with thenews. The king contrived to secure the services ofVespucius as a pilot already familiar with the westernwaters. Three ships sailed in May, 1501, with Americus 1 From a very old print reproduced in Allgemeine geographische Ephe-meriden, Weimar, 1807, vol. xxiii. 34 INTRODUCTORY. Ch. IL for chief pilot. They found the Brazilian coast atThird vo - ^ape San Roque, and explored it very thor-ageofVes- oughly as far as the mouth of the river Lapucius. pi^^^ They were now too far west to findanything for Portugal, so Vespucius headed southeasterlyand kept on without finding land until he reached theisland of South Georgia, about 1,200 miles east of CapeHorn. There the An
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