PINZON, Vincente Yaftez, Spanish ship builder and navigator: b. about 1450; d. about 1525. He was a brother of Martin Alonso Pinzon (q.v.) and a native of Palos, and set sail from there on Columbus' first voy age as commander of the third caravel, the Nina. But he is better known for a voyage he undertook in 1500, during the course of which he discovered the Brazilian coast and the mouth of the Amazon. He made with Juan Diaz de Solis two voyages, one probably in 1497 to the bay of Honduras, the other in 1508-09 along the eastern coast of South Amer ica as far as the Colorado River, lat. 40° S.
PIOLET, French clergyman and author: b. Courteix, Correze, France, 24 June 1855. He was educated at the college of Ussel and the seminaries of Ser vieres and Tulle and various Jesuit scholasti cates. In 1876 he became a member of the Society of Jesus and was ordained to the priesthood in 1888. In 1890-91 he was laboring as missionary in Madagascar and in 1898 de livered a course of lectures on Madagascar at the Sorbonne. Subsequently Dr. ,Piolet
was missionary in Wales and at Paray-le Monial, and for some years has been stationed in Paris. He was awarded three prizes by the French
and the Academy of Moral Sciences and has attended various co lonial congresses and the sessions of the In ternational Colonial Institute. His publications include (Le catholicisme en Indo-Chine) ;