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 fyrst booke. Fol. 88.

• ¶ Of the desperate aduenture and good fortune of Uaschus: And how with a hundreth fourscore and ten men, he brought that to passe for the wh••ch Petrus Arias was sente with a thousande and two hundreth fresshe souldyers.
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• Howe iren serueth for more necessary vses then gold, and howe superfluities hynder libertie.
• Howe Uaschus in one conflicte, slewe syxe hundreth bar¦baryans with theyr kynges: And howe he founde the house of kyng Quarequa infected with vnnatural lechery, commaun¦dynge that the kynge and fortie suche as he kepte for that purpose, shulde be gyuen for a pray to his dogges whiche he vsed to serue in the warres ageynst these naked people.
• Of a region of blacke Moores: And howe Uaschus came to the toppes of the mountaynes, where geuynge thankes to god, he behelde the newe south Ocean neuer before sene nor knowen to men of owre worlde.
• Howe Uaschus put kynge Chiapes to flyght, and after made a league of frendeshyppe with hym: And howe the king gaue hym .iiii. hundreth poundes weyght of wrought golde.
• Howe kynge Coquera was putte to f••yght, who also be∣inge receaued to frendeshyppe, gaue Uaschus syxe hundreth and fiftie poundes weyght of wrought golde.
• Of the goulfe cauled Sinus. S. Michaelis beinge full of inhabited Ilandes: And of the manly corage and godly zeale of Uaschus. Also of the rysynge and faulyng of the south sea.
• Howe kynge Tumaccus beinge dryuen to flyght and after¦warde reconciled, gaue Uaschus .vi. hundreth and .xiiii. pe∣sos of golde, and two hundreth and fortie of the greatest and fayrest pearles: And howe the kynge caused his men to fyshe for pearles.
• Of the Ilande cauled Margaritea Diues: And of the a∣bundaunce of fayre and great pearles founde therin.
• Of habitable regions vnder the Equinoctiall line: And of the Portugales nauigations to the Antipodes inhabytynge the fyue and fiftie degree of the south pole. Also a declara∣tion of Antipodes, and of the starres about the south pole.