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Record Nr.

UNISA996385503703316

Autore

Gage Thomas <1603?-1656.>

Titolo

A new survey of the West-Indies, or, The English American his travel by sea and land [[electronic resource] ] : containing a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America : wherein is set forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Vlhna ... and forward to Mexico : with the description of that great city, as it was in former times, and also at this present ... with his abode XII years about Guatemala, especiall in the Indian towns ... : as also his strange and wonderful conversion and calling from those remote parts to his native countrey : with his return through the province of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Portobello, Cartagena and Havana, with divers occurrents and dangers that did befal in the said journey : also a new and exact discovery of the Spanish navigation to those parts : and of their dominions, government, religion, forts, castles, ports, havens, commodities, fashions, behavior of Spaniards, priests and friers, Black-moors, Mulatto's, Mestiso's, Indians, and of their feasts and solemnities : with a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by A. Clark, and are to be sold by John Martyn, Robert Horn and Walter Kettilby, 1677

Edizione

[The third edition enlarged by the author, with a new and accurate map.]

Descrizione fisica

[9], 577 [i.e. 477], [18] p. : 1 folded map

Soggetti

Missions - Central America

Pokonchi language - Grammar

Mexico Description and travel

Central America Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The 22nd chapter, relating to his journey to Rome, was left out in this edition, owing, as it said, to its reflecting on the character of Abp. Laud."--Lowndes.

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.



Sommario/riassunto

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