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 16, 2024.
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¶ The contentes of the seconde booke. Fol. 95.
¶Of the maner of fysshynge for pearles and of the three kyndes therof. Also dyuers other questions cōcernyng perles.
Of the multitude of the shell fysshes wherin perles are in∣gendered and founde in maner in all places in the south sea: And of abundaunce of golde founde almoste in euery house.
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Also howe the treasurie of nature is in those coastes: And of the golde mynes of Dariena.
Howe kynge Teaocha gaue Uaschus .xx. poundes weight of wrought golde and two hundreth perles. Also of desertes full of wylde beastes, and howe Uaschus was troubled with greate heate in the moneth of Nouember.
Howe a dogge Tyger was taken, and his whelpes tyed in cheynes and torne in pieces: Also howe Uaschus gaue .iiii kynges to his dogges to be deuoured.
Of the vse of dogges in theyr warres, and of the fierce∣nesse of the Canibales.
Howe kynge Bononians fauoured the Chrystians and gaue Uaschus .xx. pounde weyght of wrought golde. Also his oration to Uaschus.
A similitude prouynge greate plentie of golde in the regi∣ons of the south sea, and of the trauayles which owlde soul∣dyers are able to susteyne.
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