A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . f Paria eleven months before. In 1501, Vespucci left Spain at the invitation of the King of Por-tugal, and made another, his second, voya2:e to the West, Second voy- . . . _ , . *^ ° ^_ . _ , age of ves- sailmg this time m the service oi that king. He visited thecoast of Brazil, of which, however, he was not the first dis-coverer, for in the
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . f Paria eleven months before. In 1501, Vespucci left Spain at the invitation of the King of Por-tugal, and made another, his second, voya2:e to the West, Second voy- . . . _ , . *^ ° ^_ . _ , age of ves- sailmg this time m the service oi that king. He visited thecoast of Brazil, of which, however, he was not the first dis-coverer, for in the course of the previous year — 1500 —• three dif- 1501.] SECOND VOYAGE OF VESPUCCI. 123 ferent expeditions under the guidance respectively of Vicente YanezPinzon, Diego de Lepe, and Rodrigo de Bastidas had sailed fromSpain and made extensive explorations and important discoveriesalong that coast; and a Portuguese fleet, under Pedro Alvarez deCabral, on its way to India round the Cape of Good Hope, stretchedso far to the west to avoid the calms of the coast of Africa as to comeby that chance in sight of the opposite land, where, believing it to bea part of a continent, De Cabral landed and took possession in thename of Vespucci at the Continent. [From De Bry.] The expedition of Vespucci, nevertheless, was a bold one, and madeimportant additions to astronomical science in his observations of theheavenly bodies of the Southern firmament, especially of the South-ern Cross, and to the knowledge of geography in his explorationof the Southern continent and sea of the Western leaving Cape Verde, he was sixty-seven days at sea before hemade land again at 5° south, off Cape St. Roque, on the 17th of Au-gust. Thence he sailed down the coast, spending the whole winter inits exploration, till in the following April he was as far south as the 124 COLUMBUS, VESPUCCI, AND THE CABOTS. [Chap. YI. fifty-fourth parallel, farther than any navigator had been befor
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