The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career

by Amerigo Vespucci; Bartolomé de las Casas; Christopher Columbus

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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]