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VICENTE YANEZ PINION

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VICENTE YANEZ PINION , who commanded the " Nina" in 1492–1493, also gave See also:Columbus material help, and remained loyal to his See also:leader throughout. In after years he made important discoveries on his own See also:account. See also:Late in See also:December 1499 he sailed with four caravels across the See also:Atlantic to the See also:south-See also:west, and on the 7th of See also:February 1500 he struck the South See also:American See also:continent at Cape S. Agostinho, near its most easterly See also:projection (called by him Cape See also:Santa Maria de la Consolacion) almost three months before the Portuguese navigator Cabral reached See also:Brazil, the See also:discovery of which is generally attributed to him. Proceeding southwards a See also:short distance, he then turned See also:north, followed the See also:coast to the north-west, discovered the See also:Amazon See also:estuary, and went at least as far as what is now See also:Costa Rica. After touching at See also:Haiti, and losing two of his vessels among the See also:Bahamas, Vicente returned to Palos in the end of See also:September 1500. Although concessions were made to him, and he was created See also:governor of the newly discovered lands by See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella, he does not seem to have ever taken See also:possession. In 1507 we find Vicente sailing with Juan See also:Diaz de See also:Solis along the See also:east coast of Central See also:America. In 1509, again with De Solis, he coasted the Atlantic See also:side of South America as far as the La See also:Plata estuary, hoping to find an opening westwards leading to the Spice Islands. According to See also:Herrera, he even reached 4o° S., passing the La Plata without recognizing it, and turning back about the mouth of the Rio See also:Negro, but this is probably an exaggeration. After 1523 all traces of Vicente are lost. See See also:Navarrete, Coleccion de viajes; See also:Washington See also:Irving's Columbus, Bk.

XIV., ch. ii.; bibliography in Joaquim Caetano da See also:

Silva's L'Oyapoc et l'Arnazone (See also:Paris, 1861); Herrera, Indias Occid., Dec. I., See also:lib. vi. cap. 17; lib. vii., caps. i and 9 (See also:Madrid, 1730) ; See also:Oviedo, Hist. See also:general de See also:las Indias, lib. See also:xxiii. cap. i (Madrid, 1852) ; 0. Peschel, Geschichte der Erdkunde, pp. 230, 233, 249 (See also:Munich, 1865) ; Zeitalter der Entdeckungen, pp. 305, &c., 426; Jose Maria Asensio, Cristoval See also:Colon, su See also:vida, See also:sus viajes, sus descobrimientos (See also:Barcelona, 1891) ; Cesareo See also:Fernandez Duro, Colon e See also:Pinzon.

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