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 syxte booke. Fol. 118.
¶ Of sundry opinions why the sea runneth with so swyft a course from the Easte to the west: and of the greate goulfe of the north parte of the firme lande.
The vyage of Sebastian Cabote from Englande to the fro¦sen sea, and howe beinge repulsed with Ise in the moonethe of Iuly, he sayled farre westwarde.
Of people apparelled with beastes skynnes: And howe beares take fysshes in the sea and eate them.
Howe Sebastian Cabote after that he had discouered the lande of Baccallaos or Baccallearum, was cauled out of Eng¦lande into Spayne, where he was made one of thassistaunce of the counsayle of thaffayres of India, & of his second viage
Of the Ilande Fortis: And howe a great foule as bygge as a storke lyghted in the gouernours shyppe. Also howe he arryued at Dariena with the kynges nauie.
Howe Uaschus receaued the newe gouernour: And of ha∣bitable regions vnder the Equinoctial.
Howe Petrus Aries the newe gouernour distributed his army to conquere the south regions ryche in golde, and to e∣recte newe colonies in the same.
Of the ryche golde mynes of Dabaiba, and of thexpediti∣on ageynst the kynge of that region.
Of the Uiolent course of the sea from the east to the west: And of the difficulte saylynge ageynst the same.
Of the pestiferous and vnholsome ayer of Sancta Maria Antiqua in Dariena: and howe the Spanyardes were of necessitie inforced to plant theyr fyrst colonie and habita∣cion there.
The cause of the varietie of regions lyinge all vnder one degree or paralelle, and by what meanes the soonne beames are cause of feruent heate.
Of toades and flees engendered of droppes of water, and of a house set on fyre with lyghtnynge.
* 1.1Of a dogge deuoured of a Crocodyle, and of the venemus bytynge of great battes. Also of Lions and Tygers and other wylde beastes.
Howe in these regions all foure footed beastes growe to a bygger quantitie then they whiche were of the fyrste b••oode. Also of certeyne trees of whose planckes if ships be made, they are safe frome the woormes cauled Broma or Byssas.
Of a tre whose wod is present poyson yf it be only borne a¦bout: And of an herbe that is a preseruatiue ageinst the same.
Of the ryche Ilandes of the south sea, and of certeyne expeditions ageynst the Canibales.