So he named it the New World.

Columbus all the time was declaring that the lands he had found were a part of Asia.

It was natural, therefore, that people in thinking of the New World should think of Americus Vespucius.

Before long some one even suggested that the New World should be named America in his honor.

This was done, and when it became certain that the other lands were not parts of Asia, the name America was given to them also until the whole continent came to be called America.
[Illustration: AMERICUS VESPUCIUS.] [Sidenote: Balboa sees the Pacific, 1513.] [Sidenote: Magellan's great voyage, 1520.