Second Voyage

Some 500 years ago during Columbuss second voyage to what are now the Americas he and his crew saw children playing with balls made from the latex of trees that grew there Later Joseph Priest ley called this material rubber to describe its ability to erase pencil marks by rubbing and in 1823 Charles Macintosh demonstrated how rubber could be used to make waterproof coats and shoes Shortly there after Michael Faraday determined an empirical for mula of CsHs for rubber It was eventually determined that rubber is a polymer of 2 methyl 1 3 butadiene... 

In a letter describing the second voyage, Dr. Chanca, physician to the fleet of Columbus, wrote that the Indians beat the gold into very thin plates, in order to make masks of it.. . . It is not the costliness of the gold that they value in their ornaments, but its showy appearance.. . . It appears to me that these people put more value upon copper than gold (107). The gold mines of Cibao in the interior of Haiti [Hispaniola] were discovered by Alonso de Ojeda in 1494 (108). 

The Spanish friar Ramdn Paul, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to the New World, was the first to record native use of... 

During Columbus second voyage to the Americas, 1493-1496, the Admiral himself commented on a mysterious powder which the kings of the Taino Indians... 

In his second voyage he calls the cannibal tribe Cambali. Columbus, in the Journal of his first voyage, frequently mentions the Caribas or Canibas. 

The name of Columbus is not once mentioned in the Cosmo-graphia Introdiictio, containing the I tin version of Vespucci. It occurs only once in the letter of espucci, where, in his second voyage, he mentions his arrival at Anliglia, formerly discovered by ( olumbus ... 

The investigation of Vespucci s statements contained in the first and second voyages destroys all confidence in his unsupported word, when we proceed to examine his account of the voyages alleged to have been made by him in Portuguese ships. 

The second voyage of Vespucci from Lisbon, which he calls his fourth voyage, was undertaken for the discovery of Malacca, which he believed to be in 33" S. latitude, instead of 2 14 N. latitude, its real position. This is a pretty considerable error The narrative is full of spiteful and vindictive remarks about the commander of the expedition, whose name is not given. One vessel was lost off an island which appears to have been Fernando Noronha, and two others, with Vespucci, reached the coast of Brazil and entered a harbour, which was... 

The part of the mainland in 16 is in the Gulf of Honduras. In his second voyage he alleges that he reached 15 , which is probably the reason why he chose 16 for a landfall on this voyage. 

As regards the second voyage, what I saw in it most Second... 

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