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Alonso de Ojeda

(Ojeda, Alonso de, approximately 1466-approximately 1515)

Alonso de Ojeda (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlonso ðe oˈxeða]; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Curaçao, Colombia and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita). He also travelled to Trinidad, Tobago and Aruba, in some of his travels he journeyed with Amerigo Vespucci and Juan de la Cosa. (From Wikipedia)

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The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1894), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Martín Fernández de Navarrete (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (reprint of the Hakluyt Society publication; New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Martín Fernández de Navarrete (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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THe life and voyages of Americus Vespucius (H. Mansfield, 1855), by C. Edwards Lester and Andrew Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
The life and voyages of Americus Vespucius; with illustrations concerning the navigator, and the discovery of the New World ... (H. Mansfield, 1852), by C. Edwards Lester, Marco Polo, Paolo del Pozzo Toscanelli, Amerigo Vespucci, Stanislao Canovai, and Andrew Foster (page images at HathiTrust)

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