Antonio de Herrera, Descripción de las Indias Ocidentales (1601)

Before the narrative of his Décadas, the crown's chronicler of the Indies put a separate book: a systematic geography of Spanish America, keyed to engraved tablas that drew the boundaries of each audiencia district. It measured the globe, timed every ocean crossing, and then listed the nine high courts in the order they were founded, with the number of judges in each. On the same page it records that the viceroy hands out the vacant repartimientos of Indians.