The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci Reprinted in Fascimile And Tr. From the Rare Original Edition (Florence, 1505-6)
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci Reprinted in Fascimile And Tr. From the Rare Original Edition (Florence, 1505-6)
Amerigo Vespucci
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As I said above, we left the port of Cadiz four consort ships :^ and began our voyage in a direct course to the Fortunate Isles, which are called to-day la gran Canaria, which are situated in the Ocean-sea at the extremity of the inhabited west, [and] set in the third climate : over which the North Pole has an elevation ^ Parte is used by Vespucci as plural as well as singular, and consequently this means properly '* parts " or " various parts," as it appears in the Latin version. ' The Latin v...ersion at the end of the Cosmographie Introductio has "20" instead of " 10." • flavi di conserva. Digitized by Google 6 Letter of Amerigo Vespucci. of 27 and a half degrees^ beyond their horizon:* and they are 280 leagues distant from this city of Lisbon, by the wind between mezzo di and libcccio:^ where we remained eight days, taking in provision of water, and wood, and other necessary things : and from here, having said our prayers, we weighed anchor, and gave the sails to the wind, beginning our course to westward, taking one quarter by south-west :* and so we sailed on till at the end of 37^ days we reached a land which we deemed to be a continent: which is distant westwardly from the isles of Canary about a thousand leagues beyond the inhabited region* within the torrid zone : for we found the North Pole at an elevation of 16 degrees above its horizon,^ and \it was] according to the shewing of our instruments, 75 degrees to the west of the isles of Canary: whereat we anchored with our ships a league and a half from land : and we put out our boats freighted with men and arms: we made towards the land, and before we reached it, had sight of a great number of people who were going along the shore: by which we were much rejoiced : and we observed that they were a naked race : they shewed themselves to stand in fear of us : I believe \it was] because they saw us clothed and of other appearance [than their own] : they all withdrew to a hill, and for whatsoever signals we made to them of peace and of friendliness, they would not come to parley with us : so that, as the night was now coming on, and as the ships were anchored in a dangerous place, being on a rough and shelterless coast, we decided to remove fi-om there the next day, and to go in search of some harbour or bay, where we might place our ships in safety : and we sailed with the maestrale wind,^ thus running along the coast with the > The Latin has "278." ' That is, which are situate at 27 J degrees north latitude* ■ South-south-west.
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