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 8, 2024.
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☞ The contentes of the seconde booke. Fol. 4.
¶ Howe Colonus departynge from the Ilandes of Canarie, sayled .viii. hundreth and .xx. leagues in .xxi. dayes, and came to Dominica an Ilande of the Canibales: And of the fragrant sauour of spices which proceded from the Ilandes.
Of the Ilandes of Galanta or Galana and Guadalupea, and of the trees which beare that kynde of cotton whiche the Italians caule Bombasine, and the Spanyardes Algadon.
Of dyuers kyndes of popingiayes: And of the Iland of
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Matinino or Madanino, being inhabited only with women: Also of dyuers other frutefull Ilandes: And of a conflicte which the Spanyardes had with the Canibales.
Of certeyne Ilandes in the which are seene the mynes of metals and precious stones: and of the frutefull and peopu∣lous Ilande cauled Burichena or Boriquen. or Insula S. Iohanuis
Howe all the Admirals men whiche at his fyrst vyage he lefte in Hispaniola, were slayne in his absence by the rebelli∣on of Guaccanarillus, kynge of the Region of Xamana: and of the free kynde of lyfe which they leade that haue not the vse of money.
Of the .vii. maydens which swamme .iii. myles in the sea: And of the maner of gatheryng of gold in the sands of riuers
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