Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- THE NATURAL AND MORAL History of the Indies
- DEDICATION TO THE INFANTA ISABELLA
- TRANSLATOR'S DEDICATION TO SIR ROBERT CECIL
- ADDRESS TO THE READER
- ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. First Book
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. Second Book
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. Third Book
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. Fourth Book
- Plate section
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- THE NATURAL AND MORAL History of the Indies
- DEDICATION TO THE INFANTA ISABELLA
- TRANSLATOR'S DEDICATION TO SIR ROBERT CECIL
- ADDRESS TO THE READER
- ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. First Book
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. Second Book
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. Third Book
- THE NATURAL HISTORY. Fourth Book
- Plate section
Summary
The Reader mvst vnderstand, that I wrote the two first bookes in Latine, when I was at Peru, and therefore they speake of matters of the Indies, as of things present: Being since returned into Spaine, I thought good to translate them into our vulgar tongue, and not to change my former maner of speeach. But in the five following bookes, for that I made them in Europe, I have beene forced to change my stile, and therein to treate of matters of the Indies, as of Countries and things absent. And for that this dirersitie of speech might with reason offend the Reader, I have thought good to advertise him thereof.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880