A new survey of the West-Indies [electronic resource] : being a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America / by Tho. Gage ... ; setting forth this voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulbua, and thence to Zalapa, Tlaxcatta, the city of angels, and Mexico ; with a description of that great city, as in former times, and at present ; likewise his journey there through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, his wonderful conversion and calling to his native country, with his return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena, and Havana ; with an account of the Spanish navigation thither their government, castles, ports, commodities, religion, priests and friers, negro's, 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.

Author
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
The fourth edition / enlarg'd by the author, with an accurate map.
Published/​Created
London : Printed by M. Clark, for J. Nicolson ... and T. Newborough ..., 1699.
Description
[8], 475, [19] p. : 1 folded map.

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Summary note
eebo-0021
Notes
  • Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
  • First edition. London, 1648, published under title The English-American his travail by sea and land.
  • Table of contents: p. [2]-[19]
References
Wing G115
Other title(s)
English-American his travail by sea and land.
OCLC
12256370
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