Excerpt from Letters of Amerigo VespucciThe letter speaks of Little Venice as near the begin ning of the coasting voyage, while it was near the ter mination of Ojeda's. The letter describes a voyage begun in 1497, reaching the shores of South America at sixteen degrees N., proceeding thence to twenty degrees N., and eight hundred and seventy leagues beyond that, in thirteen months. Ojeda sailed in 1499, reached the shores of South America in thirty degrees N., and spent three months on the coast, making in all six hundred leagues along the shore. The letter makes Vespucci return to Cadiz in October, 1499, while Ojida did not return till June, 1500.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.