¶ The contentes of the .vii. booke. Fol. 124.
- ¶ The particular description of the Ilande of Hispaniola,
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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"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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- and of the ryche Ilande cauled Margaritea Diues lyinge in the South sea. Also of the greate abundaunce of bigge pearles founde in the same.
- Howe the autoure compareth Hispaniola to the earthely Paradyse: And howe it farre excelleth Italy in fertilitie and temperate ayre.
- Of the fyrste inhabitours of Hispaniola & of the Ilandes of Canarie.
- Howe the inhabitauntes of Hispaniola in theyr songes & rhymes had certeyne prophesies that appareled men shulde coome to theyr contrey and brynge them into seruitude: And of theyr familiaritie with spirites. Also howe those spirites haue no more appered to them sence they were baptised.
- Of theyr expertenesse in swymmynge: And of theyr dely∣cate serpentes, byrdes, foules, and popingiais.
- Of the forme and situation of Hispaniola nere the Equi¦noctiall: And howe coulde is in sum place thereof accidentall and not by the situation of the region.
- Of oxen and swyne of exceadinge bygnesse: And of eares of wheate as bygge as a mans arme in the braun. Also howe the swyne are fedde with myrobalanes. &c.
- Of plenty of golde, brasyle, mastix, gossampyne, Elec∣trum &c: And of thincommodities of intemperate regions.
- Of dyuers languages in the Ilande: And howe the pro∣uynces are deuided into regions.
- Howe Andreas Moralis sayled into a daungerous and darke caue within the rocke of a mountayne: And of hole ryuers deuoured of suche caues. Also of the conflycte of the waters.
- Of a standynge poole in the tope of an hygh mountayne: And howe ferne and bramble busshes growe only in coulde regyons.