Title: 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.Author: Thomas GagePublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04694700CollectionID:
CTRG04-B142PublicationDate: 16550101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: First ed. (London, 1648) published under title: The
English American, his travail by sea and land.Collation: 220, 12]
p., 4] leaves of plates: maps; 29 cm
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