Today's installment concludes America's Namesake's Second Voyage,our selection from Mundus Novus by Amerigo Vespucci published in 1507.If you
Onwards to Cuba
We were then, according to the decision of the pilots, within a hundred twenty leagues of an island called Hispaniola, discovered by the admiral
Amerigo’s America’s Landfall
We found that they were of a race called cannibals, the greater part or all of whom live on human flesh.Continuing America's Namesake's Second
Amerigo Vespucci Crosses Equator
We sailed so far south in the torrid zone that we found ourselves under the equinoctial line.Continuing America's Namesake's Second Voyage,our
America’s Namesake’s Second Voyage
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Thirteen Hundred Leagues SW of Cadiz.IntroductionIt was the claim of