THISBOOKETREATETH'OF THE 
shinges that are brought from the Occidentall Indias, which 
ſerue for the vſe of Medicine, and of the order that muſt 
be kept in taking the roote called Mechoacan, vhereit 
are diſcouered great ſecretes of Nature, and great 
experiences: made and compiled by Doc 
tor Ad onardus, Phiſition of 
6 Seuill. 
N the veare of dur Loꝛd God, one 
eur Spaniardes were gouerned by 
ic Chzittopher Colen, being natu⸗ 
> G rally boꝛne in the country of Genxena 
= to diſcauer the Occidentall Prdias, 
. that are called at this day, the 
aN Rnewe woꝛrlde: and they diſcouered 
i 8 he urtt land thereof, the ri. day of 
Ocdober, o the ſaid xere: ¢ from that time vnts this, they 
THE FIR STP ART OF 
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=. thoufad,foure hundꝛeth ninetie two, 
haue difcoucred many € ſundꝛy Illandes, and much firme 
land, alwel in that countrie, which they cal the new ſpaine, 
as in that which is called the Peru, where there are many 
| Prouinces, many BR ingdomes, and many Cities that haue 
tantrarie and diuers cuftomes in them, in whiehthere haue 
beene found out, thinges that neuer in thefe partes, no; in 
any other partes of the woꝛlde haue beene ſeene, nor vnto 
fhys day knowen: and other thynges which nowe are 
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Siluer, Pearles, Emeraldes, Curkeies, x 
dl grrat value. Pet great is the erteſſe and quanti 
hatz come: and euerꝑ day doeth come, and in efpeciail 
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