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 fyfth booke. Fol. 113.
¶ The nauigation of Petrus Arias from Spayne to Hispani¦ola and Dariena, and of the Ilandes of Canarie. Also of the Ilandes of Madanino, Guadalupea, and Gatan••a.
Of the sea of herbes and mountaynes couered with snow: Also of the swyfte course of the sea towarde the west.
Of the ryuer Gaira, the region Caramairi, and the porte
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Carthago and Sancta Martha: Also of Americus Uesputius and his expert cunnynge in the knowledge of the carde, com∣passe and quadrant.
Howe the Canibales assayled Petrus Arias with his hole nauie, and shot of theyr venemous arrowes euen in the sea. Also of theyr houses and housholde stuffe.
Howe Gonzalus Quiedus founde a saphire bygger then a goose egge: Also emerodes, calcidonies, iaspers, and am∣ber of the mountaynes.
Of woddes of brasile trees, plentie of golde, and marcha¦sites of metals founde in the regions of Caramairi, Gaira, and Saturma. Also of a straunge kynde of marchaundies ex∣ercised amonge the people of Zunu.
That the region of Caramairi is lyke to an earthly Para∣dise: And of the frutefull mountaynes and pleasaunte gar∣deynes of the same.
Of many goodly countreys made desolate by the fiercenes of the Canibales, and of dyuers kyndes of breade made of rootes. Also of the maner of plantynge the roote of Iucca, whose iuise is deadely poyson in the Ilandes, and without hurte in the continent or firme lande.
Of certeyne golden ryuers, hartes, wylde bores, foules, gossampine, whyte marble, and holsome ayer. Also of the greate ryuer Maragnonus descendynge from the mountaines couered with snowe, cauled Serra Neuata.
Howe Petrus Arias wasted certeyne Ilandes of the Cani¦bales: Also howe by the swyfte course of the sea, his shyppes were caried in one nyght fortie leaques beyonde thestimation of the beste pylottes.
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