A new survey of the West-India's, or, The English American, his travail by sea and land : 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 St. John de Ulhua, and from thence to Zalappa, to Tlazcalla, the City of Angels, and forward to Mexico : with the description of that great city as it was in former times and also at this present : likewise, his journey from Mexico through the provinces of Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, Truxillo, Comayagua, with his abode twelve years about Guatemala and especially in the Indian-towns of Mixco, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan : as also his strange and wonderfull conversion and calling from those remote parts to his native country : with his return through the province of Nicaragua and Costa Rica to Nicoya, Panama, Portobelo, 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, behaviour of Spaniards, priests and friars, blackmores, 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 / by the true and painful endeavors of Thomas Gage.

Author
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed. / enl. by the author and beautified with maps.
Published/​Created
London : Printed by E. Cotes, 1655.
Description
1 online resource (220, [12] p., [4] leaves of plates ) maps ;

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Subject(s)
Series
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. [More in this series]
Notes
  • First ed. (London, 1648) published under title: The English American, his travail by sea and land.
  • Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
  • Sabin no. 26299.
Contents
  • Poem to the author by Thomas Chaloner
  • Some brief and short rules for the better learning of the Indian tongue called Poconchi or Pacoman, commonly used about Guatemala and some other parts of Honduras.
References
RLIN, CTRG04-B142
Other title(s)
New survey of the West-India's, or, The English American, his travail by sea and land
OCLC
85800263
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