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 .ix. booke. Fol. 81.
¶ Of the maruelous frutefulnes of the regions of Beragua, Uraba, and Dariena: And of the dyuers kyndes of trees and frutes. Also of the pleasaunt taste of swynes flesshe beinge fedde with the frutes of Mirobalane trees.
Of Lions and Tygers and other wylde beastes: And of a beaste of straunge forme.
Of the ryuers of the goulfe of Uraba, as the ryuer of Da¦riena and Rio Grandis: And howe the great serpentes cau∣led Crocodiles, are founde in other ryuers bysyde Nilus in Egypte. Also howe thautour of this booke was sent Ambas∣sadour to the Soldane of Alcayr in Egipte.
Of the Portugales nauigations, and of the ryuer Sene∣ga founde by them to bee a chanel of Nilus. Also of the mul∣titude of byrdes & foules beinge in the marysshes of Dariena.
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A phylosophicall discourse of thoriginall and generatio•• of sprynges and ryuers: And of the breadth of the lande di∣uydynge the north and south Ocean.
Of the great ryuer Maragnonus and of the earthly Pa∣radyse: And howe sprynges are engendered by conuercion of ayer into water.
Of the often faule of rayne vnder the Equinoctiall line, and of the pores of the sea opened by the South wyndes.
Of the great ryuers of Tanais, Ganges, Danubius, and Eridanus, famous to the owlde wryters: And howe certeine ryuers runnynge throughe the caues of the earthe, breake furth into sprynges afarre of.
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