The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage. Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.
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The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage. Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.
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Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
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Imprinted at London :: By Richarde Iugge,
1577.
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"The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage. Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20049.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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The contentes of the .x. booke. Fol. 91.
HOwe the newe founde landes discouered by the Spanyards in the West Ocean, are eyght tymes bygger then Italie, be∣syde that which the Portugales possesse, and of the cardes of the sea drawen by Colonus and Americus Vesputius.
The order of measuryng the lande, and howe a league con∣teyneth foure myles by sea, and but three by lande.
The Nauigation of Iohannes Dias, and of the sundry eleuati∣ons of the pole starre.
Of the Ilande of Boiuca or Agnaneo, and of the spryng whose water being drunke, causeth olde men to looke young.
How Nicuesa and his souldyers were so oppressed with fa∣mine,