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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Americus Vespucius, 1451-1512 (search)
. It was done, and so Columbus and Cabot were both deprived of the honor of having their names associated with the title of this continent by fraud. Vespucius died in Seville, Feb. 22, 1512. His first voyage. He started from Cadiz on May 10, 1497, and returned to that city on Oct. 15, 1498. His letter to Pier Soderini, gonfalonier of the republic of Florence, is as follows: Magnificent Lord. After humble reverence and due commendations, etc. It may be that your Magnificence will was that the King Don Ferrando of Castile being about to despatch four ships to discover new lands towards the west. I was chosen by his Highness to go in that fleet to aid in making discovery; and we set out from the port of Cadiz on the 10 day of May 1497, and took our route through the great gulph of the Ocean-sea; in which voyage we were eighteen months (engaged); and discovered much continental land and innumerable islands, and great part of them inhabited; whereas there is no mention ma