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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Americus Vespucius, 1451-1512 (search)
Antilles. and returned to Spain in June, 1500, and sold his victims for slaves to Spanish grandees. In May, 1501, Vespucius, then in the service of the King of Portugal, sailed on his second voyage to America, exploring the coast of Brazil. In 1503 he commanded a caravel in a squadron destined for America, but parted company with the other vessels, and off the coast of Brazil discovered the Bay of All-Saints. He then ran along the coast 260 leagues, and, taking in a cargo of Brazil wood, refifteen months; and for eleven days we navigated without seeing the North Star, nor the Great or Little Bears, which they call el corno, and we were guided by the stars of the other Pole. This is what I saw on this voyage. 2. March (or April), 1503. Alberico Vesputio to Lorenzo Pietro de‘ Medici, salutation. In past days I wrote very fully to you of my return from the new countries, which have been found and explored with the ships, at the cost, and by the command, of this Most Serene Ki
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cortereal, Gasper 1500- (search)
id not land; Cortereal landed in several places, and gave purely Portuguese names to localities. The natives appearing to him rugged and strong and capital material for slaves, he seized fifty of them, and, carrying them to Portugal, made a profitable sale of his captives. The profits of this voyage excited the cupidity of Cortereal and his King (Emanuel the Great), and they prepared to carry on an active slave-trade with Labrador. Cortereal went on a second voyage in 1501, but was supposed to have been lost at sea; and his brother Michael, who went in search of him, was never heard of afterwards. An expedition sent by the King in 1503 found no trace of him. The commander of one of the vessels seized fifty-seven natives as slaves, but most of them were lost in the ships. The King declared that Cortereal was the first discoverer of the American continent, and he caused a map to be published in 1508, in which the coast of Labrador is called Terra Corterealis, or Cortereal's Land.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ain in irons. He is received with honor at Court and the charges dismissed without inquiry......Dec. 17, 1500 The first map to show America is Las Casas's......1500 Columbus sails on his fourth and last voyage with four caravels and 150 men from Cadiz......May 9, 1502 Discovers the island of Martinique......June 13, 1502 Discovers various islands on the coast of Honduras and explores the coast of the Isthmus......July, 1502 Amerigo Vespucci on the South American coast......1501-3 Columbus finally leaves the New World for Spain......Sept. 12, 1504 Queen Isabella of Spain dies......Nov. 26, 1504 Columbus dies at Valladolid......May 20, 1506 Juan Diaz de Solis and Vicente Yañez Pinzon are on the southeast coast of Yucatan......1506 [De Cordova, 1517; Grijalva, 1518; Cortez, 1519.] Waldseemuller's or the Admiral's map......probably 1507 First English publication to mention America......1509 Francisco Pizarro reaches Darien......1509 Alonso de O