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Article: Amerigo Vespucci's Account Of His First Voyage
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Amerigo Vespucci's Account Of His First Voyage
Introduction
Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence in 1452 and died in Seville
in
1512. He was employed in the latter city in the business house which
fitted
out Columbus' second expedition. The following letter gives his own
account
of the first of the four voyages which he claimed to have made to
the New
World. He seems to have touched the mainland a few weeks before Cabot,
and
some fourteen months before Columbus. The suspicions which long clouded
his
title to fame have been largely dissipated by modern investigation;
and it
seems to have been not without reason that Waldseemuller in 1507 ...