who did amerigo vespucci sail for?
First voyage and letter controversy. There is some controversy among historians about when Vespucci set sail on his first voyage. Many accounts place the sail date in 1499, seven years after Columbus landed in the Bahamas. On the 1499 voyage, Vespucci sailed to the northern part of South America and into the Amazon River. He gave places he saw names like the âGulf of Ganges,â thinking, as his explorer contemporaries did, that he was in Asia. He also made improvements to celestial navigation techniques.