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. 104▪

• ¶ The fourth vyage of Colonus the Admitall frome Spayne to Hispaniola, and to the other Ilandes and coastes of the firme lande: Also of the florysshynge Ilande Guanassa.
• Of seuen kyndes of date trees, wylde vyues, and Myro∣balanes: Also of byrdes and foules.
• Of people of goodly stature which vse to paynt theyr bo∣dyes: And of the swyfte course of the sea from the east to the west. Also of fresshe water in the sea.
• Of the large regions of Paria, Os Draconis, and Qui∣riquetana: And of greate Tortoyses and reedes. Also of the foure frutefull Ilandes cauled Quatuor Tempora, and .xii. Ilandes cauled Limonares.
• Of sweete sauours and holsome ayer: And of the region Quicuri, and the hauen Cariai or Myrobalanus: Also of cer∣teyne ciuyle people.
• Of trees groynge in the sea after a straunge sorte, and of a straunge kynde of Moonkeys which inuade men and feight with wylde bores.
• Of the greate goulfe of Cerabaro replenisshed with many frutefull Ilandes, and of the people which weare cheynes of golde made of ouches wrought to the similitude of dyuers wylde beastes and foules.
• Of fyue vyllages whose inhabitauntes gyue them selues onely to gatherynge of golde, and are paynted, vsynge to weare garlandes of Lyons and Tygers clawes. Also of seuen ryuers in all the which is founde greate plentie of golde: And where the plentie of golde ceaseth.
• Of certeyne people which paynt theyr bodyes, and couer theyr priuie members with shelles, hauynge also plates of golde hangynge at theyr nosethrylles.
• Of certeyne woormes which beinge engendered in the seas nere abowt the Equinoctiall, eate holes in shyppes: And how the Admirals shyppes were destroyde by them.
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• Howe the kynge of Beragua enterteyned the Lieuet••nant and of the great plentie of gold in the ryuer of Duraba and in al the regions there about: Also in rootes of trees and siones and in maner in all the ryuers.
• Howe the Lieuetenaunt and his coompany wolde haue e∣rect••d a colonie besyde the ryuer of Beragua, and was repul¦sed by thinhabitauntes.
• Howe the Admirall fel into the handes of the barbarians of the Ilande of Iamaica where he lyued miserably the space of tenne moonethes: And by what chaunce he was saued and came to the Ilande of Hispaniola.
• Of holsome regions, temperate ayer, and continual spring al the hole yeare: Also of certeyne people which honour golde religiously durynge theyr golden haruest.
• Of the mountaynes of Beragua beinge fiftie myles in heyght and hygher then the clowdes: Also the discription of other mountaynes and regions there about, comparynge the same to Italy.
• Colonus his opinion as touchynge the supposed conti∣nente, and ioynynge of the no••th and south Ocean. Also of the breadth of the sayde continente or firme lande.
• Of the regions of Uraba and Beragua and the great riue•• Maragnonus and the ryuer of Dabaiba or Sancti Iohannis Also of certeyne marysshes and desolate wayes, and of dra∣gons and Crocodiles engendered in the sa••e.
• Of .xx. golden ryuers abowt Dariena and of certeyne pre∣cious stones, especially a diamunde of marueilous byggenesse bought in the prouince of P••••ia.
• Of the heroical factes of the Spanyardes and howe they contemne effeminate pl••asures. Also a similitude prouynge greate plentie of golde and precious stones.