The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.

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Title: The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
Author: Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
Publication: Londini :: In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton],; Anno. 1555.
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Subject terms: America -- Early accounts to 1600.
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¶ Of Ginger cauled Beledi.

GInger Beledi, groweth on euery syde abowte Calicut from syxe to nine myles: And is woorth th•• bahar .••l. fanans, and sumtymes fiftie, whiche is lesse then one marchetto the pounde.

They brynge it from the mountaynes and owt of the contrey to the citie, where they sell it by retayle to the Indian mar∣chauntes, who ga••••er it togither in great quantitie and kepe it to such ty••e as the Moores shyppes arryue the••e, to whom they sell it, by the price of .xc. fanans, to .Cx. whiche is lesse then ••wo mar••h••tti the pound, bycause the weight is greater.