Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda, and whose highest naval rank was boatswain’s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in ...

The German mapmaker who did it mistakenly thought Italian adventurer Amerigo Vespucci had discovered the mainland of the New World. The man who commanded the expedition that did, Christopher ...