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Summary

Amerigo Vespucci upon his arrival on his first voyage to the New World, 1497. Vespucci is offered native women, notice hammocks in the background. As described in Vespucci's Letter to Soderini. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JSKAbyKD5rkC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false">description</a> (uncertain location, prob. Central America, around Honduras or Yucatan; alternatively poss. Gulf of Paria in Venezuela). Engraving from c.1592 by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Theodor_de_Bry" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodor de Bry">Theodor de Bry</a> (Flemish, 1528-1598).

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current23:45, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 23:45, 4 January 2017642 × 482 (164 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Amerigo Vespucci upon his arrival on his first voyage to the New World, 1497. Vespucci is offered native women, notice hammocks in the background. As described in Vespucci's Letter to Soderini. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JSKAbyKD5rkC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false">description</a> (uncertain location, prob. Central America, around Honduras or Yucatan; alternatively poss. Gulf of Paria in Venezuela). Engraving from c.1592 by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Theodor_de_Bry" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodor de Bry">Theodor de Bry</a> (Flemish, 1528-1598).
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