A new survey of the West-Indies: or, The English American his travel 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 S. John de Ulhua; and thence to Xalappa, to Tlaxcalla, 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 XII. years about Guatemala, especiall [sic] in the Indian town of Mixco, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan. 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, Porto Bello, Cartagena and Havana, with divers occurents 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, mestitso's, Indians; and of their feasts and solemnities. With a grammar, or some of few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman
The third edition enlarged by the author, with a new and accurate map.
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Publication
Printed by A. Clark, and are to be sold by J. Martyn, Robert Horn and Walter Kettilby, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
144,250 words, Guess
Page Count
577 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenewsurveyofwesti01gage
- Library of Congress Control Number02004662
- OCLC Control Number727133489
- OCLC Control Number5037965
- Open LibraryOL25273821M
Classifications
- LCCF1211 .G15
Alternate Titles
- New survey of the West-Indies.
- English American his travel by sea and land.
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