A New Survey of the West-India's, Or, the English American, His Travail by Sea and Land

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 Gage

Publisher: 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.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP04694700

CollectionID: CTRG04-B142

PublicationDate: 16550101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: 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