The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton.

  • Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.
Date:
1928
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Credit: The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLATE 2 • - --|«g>' *§* •§* «§» •gfr •§* •§» •§* •§*■ •§£ •S» * •§» •§* <8* C§4 •g* & *£t? •ge •§« *§s •§* •8* ♦§& *§$ •§S •§» •§* «* *g* •§* 8* •g* £* •g* ♦§* •g* «• •§& §»' & ♦§* •§* S» •g* •§* •§* •g* ~Tbe Englijh-American bis Travail by Sea and Land ; O R, A NEW SVRVEY TA T? TUT WES TIN DIAS, CONTAINING AJournall of Three thoufand and Three hundred Miles within the nain Land of AMERICA, Wherin is let forth his Voyage from Spai'n to S'.lobndeVlbutr, and from thence to Xalappa, to Tlaxcalla, the City of Angeles, and forward to Mexico • With the deferiptionof that great City, as it was in former times, and alfo at this prefent. Lilcewife his Journey from Mexico through the Provinces of Guaxaca, Chiapa , Guatemala, Vera Pag , Truxillo , Comayagua■ with his abode Twelve years about GujtemaG, and especially in the Indian»toWns of Alixco, Pmola,P tttpa,Amatitlan. As alfo his ftrange and wonderfull Converfon, and Calling froift t-hofc remote Parts to his Native C o un t r e y. With his .return through the Province of Nicaragua, and Co fa Rica, toNicojra, Pammi, Portobdo, Cartagena, and Havana, with divers occurrent* and dangers that did befal in-thefaid Journey. ALSO„ A New and exa$ Difcovery of the Spanifh Navigation to thofc Parts; And of their Dominions, Government, Religion, Forts, Cattles, Ports, Havens, Commodities, faihions, behaviour of Spaniards,Pricltsand Friers,BIackn>ores,Mulatto’s,Meiiifo’s, Indians j and of their Fcaifs and Solemnities, With a Grammar, or tome few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called , Poconchi, or Pocoman By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage, norv Prtacher of the Word of G od at Ac ns in the County of K e n t. Anno Dom. 164b. *§• *§• & *3* S3 London, Printed by R Cotes, and are to be fold by Humphrey Blunders at the Caffle in CombiU, and Thom# fV-dlumi at theBrblein Little Britain, 1648. 1 ___* __ __** «§• *§• *§* ■S&* s> *§• *§* *3» ■«*§* s§» & {Frontispiece to the First English Edition)