The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok.

  • Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Date:
[1625?]
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Credit: The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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