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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Why theyr kinges are cauled by dyuers names, & by what names they salute the kynges chyldren when they are borne.
Howe they make theyr testamentes, and howe certeyne of the kynges wyues and concubines are buryed with them.
Of the variable motions of the elementes in Hispaniola: And where it rayneth but lyttle, and where much.
Of the colonies and vyllages that the Spanyardes haue buylded in Hispaniola: & of the other Ilands about the same
Of a sprynge which runnyng vnder the sea from Hispani¦ola, breaketh furth in the Iland of Arethusa: Also of habita∣ble regions vnder the Equinoctial, and of the ryche golde mynes of the Ilande of Cuba.
Of the gumme cauled Animae Album: And of the Canibale Also whereby it was thought that there were Ilandes of women.
Of hony founde in trees and rockes: And of the generall on of greate Tortoyses and of theyr egges.
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