Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-05
COLUMBUS DAY.

Past-How America Came TO Receive |
It's Name-An Ingenious dnd Well
Supported Theory.
Captain Charles 81. Townshend con-
tributes the following apropos of the ap-
proach of Columbus day, it being por-
ton of an article which was prepared by
him and published recently, relative to
Columbus and how this country came to
be named America instead of receiving
name in honor of the great discoverer.
Brief mention will be made regarding
the original or native name of our CONT
nent which it bore before the Columbian
discovery, and point out how, by COM
bination of circumstances, the whole world
has been led into the error that America
was named for Vesputlus, Florentine
map-maker, who enlightened Europe on
the discoveries of Columbus.
Am-ar-ca is the native name of the land
which Christopher Columbus discovered in
1893 near the mouth of the Orinoco river
on the north coast of the South American
continent while making his third voyage
westward from Spain in quest of a more
direct route to India, Cathay and Japan.
These last named countries having been
visited in the thirteenth century by the
noble and illustrious Venetian voyager,
Marco Polo, of which he, on his return to
his native city, published to the then
known world 30 interesting an account,
and concerning which Colonel Yale of the
Royal Bengel (British) army has also
It'll - 1; &, La oe Ii
eastern travels. The vast extent of these
countries, their immense population,
mineral and agricultural productions and
the unsurpassed magnifcence of the Tartar
dynasty and of the Great Khans who at
that period held autocratic sway of Asia.
The Baron de Humboldt tells us that the
| first settlement of Spanyards on the main
land was at place called Amaraca- parma,
| and on map showing the discoveries and
explorations of Columbus on the coast of
Venezuela from the Dragons Mouth Zone
| of the approaches to the Bay of Para)
| between the island of Trinidad and the
coast of South America and the mouth of
the Orinoco river appears the name Mara
| ca-panna or properly Amaraca-panna.
This name Amarca was adopted by the
Spanyards for the new country and 80 laid
down on their charts and publications OF
that date and so gave publicity concerning
this native name and by which later the
| whole western continent became known tc
Europeans by the national name of itf
| chief nation.
| The name Amaroa is in this form: Viz.
| Am area; the rootar is in three FORMS
Ar, primary; er, secondary; and or, ter
tiary; so that the name Am-ar-ca an6
America are Identical.
| The sacred book of the Peruvians shows
that Amarca or America was really the
national name of their country. This hat
been proved by travellers and chart makers
who show that early South Americans
| adopted the system of adding prefxes tx
the national name in designating the mos
important cities, such as Cundin-Amarca
Cay-Amarca, Pult-Amarcs, Yan-Amarca
Ang-Amarca and Vin-Amarca, and theil
capital was called Amarca; and to Civ,
here in way of an illustration parallel VI
will say North Haven, East Haven, Yves
Haven, etc., etc.
From this time, A. D. 1900, the name O.
Amarca was we'll known in Europe, ant
every year new expeditions for exploration
and trade were fitted out, as history
abundantly proves, viz: those of Nino ant
Pinzon, both companions of Columbus
Lepe 1901, Guerra 1909, etc., etc. Tn
capital of the new country, Amarca, wa
burned by the Spaniard Alvsrdo in 1924
Having shown the name America t.
have been of native origin, it NATURAL,
follows that an explanation should b
sought as to why the great error which i
has taken centuries to explain was mad
by early historians and thrown broadcas
to the world; why the nickname Amerig'
for Alberticus Vesputius, Florentin
naval astronomer, should have been thu
misspplied. Vespucci was not even
mariner. He was a man of business VIII
in May, 1899, and the year following tn
Columbian discovery of the American con
? tinent accompanied the Ojeda expeditio,
as passenger with the object in view t,
, collect materials for his new books and
charts, which later found market ant
sale in the countries of Europe, and a
there were several Vespucoi at this dat
following the same calling, he was distin
| guiehed from the others (who were his re
lations) on account of this voyage by tn
cognomen of the new country of which b
wrote and was thus known to the world b.
its native name, Amarca.
1t was the custom at that period to Civ
men who had accomplished remarkabl
deeds an additional oognomen, as in GU
day General Gordon, who served in China
was named Chinese Gordon; General Jack
son, Stonewall jackson; DR.. Livingston
African Livingston, ETC., etc., so as Albe1
thus Vesputius had voyaged to the ne'
found land of Columbus, whose discover
of it no one disputed at that period and {
which Columbus had made charts; Yes
pucci was given, we are led to suppos
from investigation the cognomen of sAme
igo" Vespucci. Early in the sixteent
century "a. D. 1900 the duke of Lorrain
gave to the famous monastery of st. De-
where the learned monk, Waltze Mule
was the principal, printing press, an
/ H. ~>-h1Soofiopo Of aaprooi r1ipor III
discovery of the new country being at thu
time new these monks, wishing to sho
the wonders of printing, issued on Apr
I26, 1907, as their first work, little boo
-four pages) and with it the Vespucci ma
of the then supposed world, with the ne
country added thereto.
Lambert says in tracing the new-fount
}. land they (the monks) were guided by tt
published letters of Vesputius, and in IL
. preface of the work it was suggested tn,
the western continent be named Amerig
after the man whom, they added, had di
covered it. They did not know that We
putius himself had taken the name Anne
igo Qtalian) from Amarca, the native nan
. Of the country which he had visited and (
, which he had written.
About A. D. 1919 Muller, fndin
; out his error, issued new map of the ne
d discoveries, and without mentioning h
), | error wrote on it, "This land with til
!. adjacent isles was found by Columbus, a
> officer in command for the king of Ca
y | tile." Hereafter all the new maps seem
+ have copied this native name of the ne
:, country and spelling it Amerigo Americ
d and the name was generally adopted b
NJ the whole world, and no one seems to hay
= corrected the wrong impression that ha
gone out broadcast through the medium
this, at the time, seemingly insigni6ca1
fact.
Twill not repeat the mythical voyage {
the Mortimer to Vineland (New Englan,
centuries before Columbus voyages, 149
1902, when he explored the north and wei
shores of the Caribbean sea, and unknow
to himself discovered continent, suppo
ing it, on account Of error regarding tt
then unknown circumference of the worlt
to be contiguous to Cathay on the easter
shores of Asia Minor. Nor will enlarp
at length on the history of the voyage
Columbus and his contemporaries, wit
which all are familiar, but will only NAL
brief mention of those ravigstors and the
exploits, as their names are required to E
up and connect history, and as they we