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.

¶ The contentes of the fourth booke. Fol. 66.

• ¶ Of horryble thunder and lyghtnynge in the mooneth of Nouember, and of grayne which waxeth rype thryse a yeare Also how digestion is strengthened by owtwarde coulde.
• Howe Ualdiuia is sent ageyne into Hispaniola to mou•• the gouernour and counsayle there to sende into Spayne to

• the kynge for a supplie of a thousand souldyers to make way to the golden moūtaynes: And howe he caryed with hym the kynges portion, (that is) the fyfte parte of golde and other thynges.
• Howe Uaschus inuaded the kynges inhabytynge the re∣gions about the goulfe of Uraba, and howe he put kyng Da¦baiba to flyght, in whose vyllage he founde wrought gold•• amountynge to the weyght of seuen thousande Castellans.
• Of battes as bygge as turtle dooues which sumtyme byt•• men in the nyght in theyr sleepe, whose bytynge is also vene∣mous: but is healed with water of the sea or by cauterization as are also the woundes of venemous arrowes.
• Of the Ilande of Cannafistula, and a towne of fyue hun¦dreth houses, whose kynge Abenamachei was taken and his arme cutte of in the fyght.
• Of trees of exceadynge bygnesse and heyght: And howe kynge Abibeiba had his pallaice in the toppe of a tree frome the which he was inforced to descende and entreate of peace.