[603] See p. 119.
[604] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 178; Carter-Brown, vol. i. no. 106; Charles Deane’s paper on Schöner in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., October, 1883.
[605] Examen critique, v. 174. Here is a contemporary’s evidence that Vespucius supposed the new coasts to be Asia.
[606] “Tota itaque quod aiunt aberrant cœlo qui hanc continentem Americâ nuncupari contendunt, cum Americus multo post Columbû eandê terram adieret, nec cum Hispanis ille, sed cum Portugallensibus, ut suas merces commutaret, èo se contulito.” It was repeated in the edition of 1541.
[607] Pedro de Ledesma, Columbus’ pilot in his third voyage, deposed in 1513 that he considered Paria a part of Asia (Navarrete, iii. 539).
[608] Cosmos, Eng. tr., ii. 676.
[609] Wieser, Der Portulan des Königs Philipp, vol. ii. Vienna, 1876.
[610] See instances cited by Prof. J. D. Butler, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, vol. ii. (1873, 1874). There was an attempt made in 1845, by some within the New York Historical Society, to render tardy justice to the memory of Columbus by taking his name, in the form of Columbia, as a national designation of the United States; but it necessarily failed (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. 315). “Allegania” was an alternative suggestion made at the same time.
[611] This letter is preserved in the Archives of the Duke of Veraguas. It has been often printed. Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 149.
[612] Vizconde de Santarem (Manoel Francisco de Barros y Sousa), Researches respecting Americus Vespucius and his Voyages. Translated by E.V. Childe (Boston, 1850), 221 pp. 16mo. This is a translation of the Recherches historiques, critiques et bibliographiques sur Améric Vespuce et ses voyages, which was published in Paris in 1842. Santarem had before this sought to discredit the voyages claimed for Vespucius in 1501 and 1503, and had communicated a memoir on the subject to Navarrete’s Coleccion. He also published a paper in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris in October, 1833, and added to his statements in subsequent numbers (October, 1835; September, 1836; February and September, 1837). These various contributions were combined and annotated in the Recherches, etc., already mentioned. Cf. his Memoria e investigaciones históricas sobre los viajes de Américo Vespucio, in the Recueil complet de traités, vi. 304. There is a biography of Vespucius, with an appendix of “Pruebas é ilustraciones” in the Coleccion de Opúsculos of Navarrete, published (1848) at Madrid, after his death.