Patrick wrote (to wally) >>i think you did accidentally make a misstatement about americo (i've always seen it spelled amerigo) vespucci. his own voyages may have only been to south america, but the name "america" does come from his name, because he was the navigator on columbus' first voyage, which landed in the Caribbean<<
to which mike now adds and Stevie Wonder wrote *Guide of a ship, on the first Columbus trip was a brown man* although Stevie names him as Pedro Alonzo Nino. If a navigator is a guide, as I believe is the case, then was Vespucci or Alonzo the guide. And if Alonzo was brown (sounds Spanish to me) what colour was Vespucci? Eduardo Galeano mentions Vespucci only twice in his 'Memory of Fire' trilogy. The quote is as follows: The ocean will not be named the Sea of Columbus; nor will the new world bear his name, but that of his Florentine friend Amerigo Vespucci, navigator and pilot master. But it was Columbus who found dazzling color that didn't exist in the European rainbow. Blind, he dies without seeing it. mike in barcelona, from where Columbus started his journey to the 'new world' NP Stevie Wonder. Black Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here
