Part 6 (1/2)
_Rodrigo de Bastidas_ said that Yanez and Juan Diaz de Solis went to discover below Veragua He did not kno much they discovered, but it is all one coast with that which was first discovered by the Admiral
_Nicolas Perez_ said that the Adua, discovered Cape Gracias a Dios, and that all beyond that is discovered, was discovered by Yanez and Juan Diaz de Solis; that this appears by the sea-chart drawn by theuided
_Pedro de Ledesma_,[158] pilot, said that he went in cohnesses, and sahat Vicente Yanez and Juan de Solis discovered beyond the land of Veragua, in a part towards the north,[159] all that which has been made known up to the present time, from the island of Guanaja towards the north; and that these lands are called Chabaca and Pintigron, and that they reached in a northerly direction as far as 23-1/2 degrees, and that in this part the said Don Cristobal Colon neither went, nor discovered, nor saw
LAS CASAS ON THE VOYAGE OF PINZON AND SOLIS[160]
After the Admiral left the solitude and the hardshi+ps he suffered in Ja knohat he had discovered, there presently agreed together one Juan Diaz de Solis and Vicente Yanez Pinzon (brother of Martin A Pinzon, of e said that he helped the Admiral to fit out in the town of Palos, and ith hi Vicente Yanez and another brother, when he sailed on the first voyage to discover these Indies, as has been explained in the first book) to set out and discover, and to continue the route which the Ade of discovery These went to take up the thread from the island or islands of Guanajes, which we said that the Ade, and they turned to the east[161]
These two discoverers sailed[162] (as athered from the statement of witnesses called by the Fiscal in the lawsuit with the second Admiral) towards the west from the Guanajes, and h they did not see it because it is concealed, but they saw the openings made by the sea into the land, which contains the Golfo Dolce and that of Yucatan, and it is like a great gulf or bay (The ive the name of bay to the sea that is between two lands in the form of an open port, which would be a port if it was not that it is very large, but being very capacious and not closed, they call it a bay, the _i_ and _a_ in _bahia_ being pronounced separately) Thus, as they saw that great angle made by the sea between the two lands, the one which is on the left hand having its back to the east, and this is the coast which contains the port of Caballos and in front of it the Golfo Dolce, and the other on the right hand, which is the coast of the province of Yucatan It appeared to thereat bay, and Vicente Yanez, therefore (in the sworn deposition he made in the said lawsuit, when he was called a witness by the Fiscal), said that, sailing fro, they discovered a great bay to which they gave the name of the ”Great Bay of the Nativity”, and thence they discovered the hills of Caria,[163] and other lands further on
According to the other witnesses, they then turned north[164] Froreat part of the kingdom of Yucatan, but as afterwards there was no one ould continue that discovery, nothing dodoht easily have been discovered But they were found by chance from the island of Cuba, as, please God, will be set forth in Book III of this history
And it must here be remarked that these discoverers were chiefly actuated in their enterprize by emulation of the Admiral, and of what he had discovered before, in the service of the Sovereigns As if the Adates of the ocean which had been closed for so ht by which all ht see how to discover The Royal Fiscal devoted all his studies to prove that the parts of the mainland discovered by the other explorers were distinct from those which the Admiral had discovered, and he would ; his object being to dins were less obliged to recognise the inestimable services he had performed, and to fulfil the promises they had ood reason This was a great injustice
With reference to this design, the Fiscal put the question whether the witnesses knew that the discoveries made by others were distinct froot the answers he wanted from the sailors, who said it was a different land But they were not asked if it was all one mainland, nor did they deny that But others, especially two honourable o de Bastidas, of e have already treated, the other a pilot na the injury that the prosecutor was trying to do the Admiral, deposed many times, on different occasions in the course of the lawsuit, that the lands others had discovered were to the west of those discovered by the Admiral, but that the whole was one continuous land True that Vicente Yanez and Juan de Solis went to discover beyond Veragua, along that coast, but all the land that they or any others discovered of the region called the main was all one coast, and continuous hat the Admiral discovered first Others, besides these two, say it is all one coast froh provinces have different naes This was then declared by witnesses who had been there, and kneell by having used their own eyes, and noould be needless to seek further for witnesses than in the grocers' shops in Seville Thus it cannot be denied to the Adreat injustice, that as he was the first discoverer of those Indies, so he was also of the whole of ourthe province of Paria, which is a part of all that land For it was he that put the thread into the hands of the rest, by which they found the clew to ht hout all that land, even if the region was still more extensive, just as they should be respected in Espanola and the other islands For it was not necessary for hi possession of an estate, as the jurists hold
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INDEX
=aethiopia=, coast of, 35, 41, 43, 53 =Africa=, west coast, Vespucci on, xli, 35, 43, 53 =Africus=, a course, 52 =Albizi=, Francisco degli, a tall man, natives compared to, 27 =Alseshi+j=, a name in the Vianelo letter, 59 =Altitudes= of heavenly bodies, observations, 44 =America=, objection of Las Casas and Herrera to the name, xxxix, 76 =Anie, 17, 87 =Antarctic Circle=, approach to, 39, 45 =Antiglia=, or Antilla, xxiv, xxxvi _n_, 29, 83, 107 (see =Espanola=) =Astrolabe=, 45, 65 =Atlantic=, passages across, 3, 21, 36, 43, 53 =Ayarayte=, cacique, 96 =Azores=, xlii, 41
=Badajoz= commission, viii _n_, xv =Bahamas=, xxvii =Bahia=, xliii, 53 =Balboa=, Vasco Nunez de, xv =Bandini=, his Life of Vespucci, ii =Baptisms= performed by Vespucci and his coo de, evidence respecting the voyage of Pinzon and Solis, 109, 113 =Bello=, Pero, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Benvenuti=, Benvenuto di Domenico, requested Vespucci to write to Soderini, bearer of the letter, 2, 56 =Berardi=, Juan, employed Vespucci, iv, 31; his contract to supply shi+ps, iv, v; suggestion that his shi+ps were used for the voyage of Vespucci, xxv =Bermuda= (see =Iti=), first appearance on the map, xxxviii; discovered by Juan Bermudez, _ib_ =Besechiece=, on the coast of Africa, xli, 35 (see =Biseghier=) =Birds= seen in the first voyage, 17; cohier=, or Bezequiche, 43 =Bobadilla=, xv =Bolanos=, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Book= of Vespucci (see _Four Voyages_) =Brabo=, Hernan, one of Roldan's boat's crew, 105 =Brasil= in Espanola, Hojeda at, 80, 97, 98 =Brazil=, coast of, Vespucci on, xii, xli, 36; natives, 36, 37, 45, 46; cannibals, 37, 38, 47; trees, 39, 48; fort built, 55
=Cabot=, Sebastian, as to observations of Vespucci, viii _n_ =Cabral=, Pedro Alvarez, uese expedition on return froent to, iv; departure of Vespucci from, 3, 4, 21, 75; return to, 21, 30; return of Hojeda to, 34; slaves sold at, 19, 21 =Cahay=, 104 =Calicut=, 53 =Camarona=, province, Pinzon and Solis at, 109 =Canaria Gran=, Vespucci at, distance from Lisbon, 4, 21; Hojeda touched at, 32, 85; Vespucci at, with the Portuguese, 35, 43 =Cancer=, Tropic of, 17 =Canna fistola=, tree, 39 =Cannibals=, 32, 37, 38, 47 =Canoe=, chase of, in the Gulf of Paria, 23 =Canopus=, 49 =Canovai=, Life of Vespucci by, iii =Cape Verde=, 43, 44 =Cape Verde Isles=, 21, 28, 53, 69 =Capricorn=, Tropic, 39, 48 =Carabi=, a native word mentioned by Vespucci, xxiii, xxix, 17, 89 =Caria=, ulf, x, 92 =Caribs=, 32 =Carnesecchi=, priest who brought news of Geronnica Vespucci, iv =Carvajal=, Alonso de, 102 =Cassia= trees, 29 =Cazabi=, food of natives, xxiii, xxx, 11 =Cerezo=, Maria, wife of Vespucci, pension, xv =Chabaca=, Pinzon and Solis voyage, xxxiii, 109-10 =Chart=, 45 (see =Padron Real=), 64, 65 =Clilobe referred to by Vespucci, 4, 17, 35 =Coelho=, Gonzalo, expedition to Brazil, Vespucci not with him, xlii, 52 _n_ =Columba=, name proposed by Las Casas instead of America, 76 =Columbus=, Christopher: Governes of, vi Mentioned once by Vespucci, vi, xii, 29 Letter to his son in which Vespucci is mentioned, 57 True discoverer of the o when Hojeda arrived on the coast, 98 =Coluo, lawsuit, efforts made to show that others made discoveries besides the Admiral, xxxiv; proofs of his father's discoveries, xii, 73, 96 =Columbus=, Fernando, possessed a copy of the printed letters of Vespucci, xxxv, 84 =Coquibacoa=, province, 33, 91, 96, 98 =Cosa=, Juan de la, with Hojeda, viii, 31, 71, 73, 85, 96; account of a voyage in Vianelo's letter, xiii, xiv, 58-61; called ”Juan Vizcaino”, 81, 100; in a boat to parley with Roldan, 105; raphiae Introductio_, xviii =Course= (see =Winds=) =Crocodiles= (see =Lagartos=) =cumana=, 91 =Cuquibacoa= (see =Coquibacoa=) =Curacoa=, isle (see =Isla de los Gigantes=), 33
=Dante=, quoted by Vespucci, vii, 3 =D'Avezac=, his opinion of Vespucci, i =Doo=, Boca del, x, 30, 32, 72, 79, 87; on the o de, sent by Roldan to negotiate with Hojeda, 103, 104 =Espanola=, arrival of Vespucci at, 29; Hojeda at, x, 33, 98, 106 =Ethiopia=, coast, 35, 41, 43, 53 =Ethiopic Pro, alleged to have sent Vespucci, 2, 3, 35, 72; his bad appointments, xiv, xv =Fernando Noronha=, isles, shi+pwreck at, xlii, 53, 54 =Fish=, loaves made of, 14, 87 =Fishery= of ”parchi” on the African coast, 35 ”=Flechado=,” Puerto, of Hojeda, 33 =Florida=, concession to Ponce de Leon, evidence against Vespucci from, xxxviii =Fonseca=, Bishop of Palencia, sent Hojeda, vii, 31, 70, 77; his licence to Hojeda, 77, 101, 106; his opinion of Vespucci, viii; his bad appointments, xv; maps shown to Peter Martyr by, xxxvii, xxxviii =Food= of natives, 11 =Fortunate Isles=, 4, 43 _Four Voyages_, book supposed to have been written by Vespucci, xxi, 11, 16, 39, 51, 55 =Fruits=, 17, 88; beer made from, 24 =Fuoco=, isle, 21