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 April 30, 2024.

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¶ The contentes of the syxte booke. Fol. 72.
  • ¶ Howe Uaschus with his confetherates, sente Iohannes Quicedus and Colmenaris from Dariena to Hispaniola and from thēse to Spayne to the kyng for a thousand men to passe ouer the mountaynes to the golden regions: And what mi∣series they susteyned in that vyage. Also of the death of Ual¦uia, Zamudius, and Fogeda.
  • Of the prosperous vyage of Ancisus: And howe godde

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  • wrought miracles by the simple fayth of a mariner. Also ho god respecteth thinfancie of fayth for zeles sake: And howe one religion turned into another, holdeth styll many thinges of the fyrste.
  • Howe many of the barbarians were baptised by reason of the miracles: And howe they rewarded the prestes by whome they were baptised.
  • Howe Ancisus shortly after his arryuall in Spayne, resor¦ted to the courte and made his complaynt to the kinge of thin¦solencie of Uaschus, wheruppon the kynge gaue sentence a∣geynst hym: And howe apte the barbarous nations are to em¦brase the Christian fayth.
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