The discoverer of our own continent, Christopher Columbus, was thrown into prison, and another, Amerigo vespucci, was given the honor, his name to this day marking the land which was reached only through the intrepidity and single-hearted, single-sustained confidence of a man whose vision his own people doubted.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
vespucci saw that the country was fertile and the climate pleasant.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
In the chapel next the door of the sacristy repose the remains of Amerigo vespucci, who gave his name to America.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
