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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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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Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
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Londini :: In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton],
Anno. 1555.
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America -- Early accounts to 1600.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20032.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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¶ The Contentes of the .x. booke. Fol. 48.
Of great glentie of golde, perles, and franken••ence found in the regions of Paria. And of innumerable beastes in shape dyfferynge from owres.
Howe the Spaniardes profered them selues to conquere the newe founde landes, beynge in largenesse thryse as great
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as Europe besyde the southe landes parteynynge to the Por∣tugales. And howe the nature of the place altereth the formes and qualities of thynges.
Of the Ilande of Cuba, and of the golde mynes of the I∣land of Sancti Iohannis, otherwise cauled Burichena, or Bu¦chena. Also of the ryche golde mynes of Hispaniola, and of the order of workynge in the same.
Of the two chiefe golde mynes of Hispaniola. And of a pece of golde weyinge thre thousande thre hundreth and tenne pounde weyght.
Howe the golde is fyned and distrybuted: And howe that only in the meltynge shops of the two golden mynes of His∣paniola, is molten yearely aboue three hundreth thousande pounde weyght of golde.
Howe thenterpryses of the Spanyardes are not inferior to thactes of Saturnus or Hercules: And howe the Admy∣rall discouered the lande ouer ageynst the west corner of Cuba and the Ilande or Guanassa.
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