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 15, 2024.
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¶ The Contentes of the thyrde booke. Fol. 10.
¶ A particular description of the Ilande of Hispaniola, whi¦che Colonus thynketh to be Ophir, from whense kynge Sa∣lomon had his great ryches of golde.
Of the maruelous frutefulnes of Hispaniola, and of the suger canes growynge there.
Of the golden regions of Cipanga or Cibaua, and of the ryuers in whose sandes is founde great plentie of golde.
Of certeyne graines of gold of exceadyng great quantitie.
Of wylde vines of pleasaunt taste, and of grasse which in foure dayes groweth as hygh as wheate.
Of the Ilande of Iohanna or Cuba, beinge the ende of the East and the West: And of the frutefull and peopulous I∣lande of Iamaica.
Howe the Admirall thought that he had sayled abowte the lowest hemispherie or halfe circle of the earth, and of a se¦create of Astronomie touchynge the same matter.
Howe the Admirall gaue names to .vii. hundreth Ilan∣des, and passed by three thousande unnamed.
Of certeyne serpentes lyke vnto Crocodiles of .viii. foote longe, whose flesshe is delicate to be eaten: and of certeyne trees which beare gourdes.
Of the ryuer whose water is very hotte: and of the hun∣tynge fysshe which taketh other fysshes.
Of great abundaunce of Tortoyses as bygge as targets, and of a frutefull mountayne well inhabited.
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Of dogges of deformed shape and dum: And of whyte and thicke water.
Of wooddes of date trees and pynepaple trees, and of certeyne people appareled like white friers.
Of certeyne trees whiche beare spices, and of cranes of exceadynge bignes.
Of stocke doues of more pleasaunte taste then partriches.
An oration of a barbarous gouernoure as touchinge the immortalitie of the sowle: Also of the rewarde of vertue and punysshmente of vice.
A similitude of the golden worlde, and of prouision with owte care.
Howe the admirall fell sicke by reason of to much watch¦ynge: And of a sedition which rose among the Spaniardes in the Ilande of Hispaniola.
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