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 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 twelve years about Guatemala, and especially in the Indian-towns of Mexico, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan : as also his strange and wonderfull 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, Portobelo, Cartagena, and Havana, with divers occurrents and dangers that did befal in the said journey : also, a new and exact discovery o …ˆe Spanish navigation to those parts, and of their dominions, government, religion, forts, castles, ports, havens, commodities, fashions, behaviour of Spaniards, priests and friers, blackamores, 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 ...

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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 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 twelve years about Guatemala, and especially in the Indian-towns of Mexico, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan : as also his strange and wonderfull 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, 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 friers, blackamores, 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 ...

Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.

OTHER TITLES
English-American

New survey of the West-Indias

English American his travail by sea and land

CREATED/PUBLISHED
The second edition enlarged by the author, and beautified with maps.
London : Printed by E. Cotes, and sold by John Sweeting ..., 1655.

NOTES
The author's name appears after the edition statement.

First edition, London, 1648, published under title: The English American his travail by sea and land.

Signatures: A(-A1) B-T UC8.

Wing (2nd ed.) G113

Sabin 26299

SUBJECTS
Mexico--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Central America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Gage, Thomas,--1603?-1656--Travel.
Indians--Missions--Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church--Missions.
Pokonchi language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
England--London.

MEDIUM
[8], 220, [12] p., [4] leaves of plates : maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)

CALL NUMBER
F1211 .G14

DIGITAL ID
rbfr 1007 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/kislak.2000.114.00.0001

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