A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America : containing an account of the soil, produce, animals, vales, mountains, rivers, lakes, &c. of those countries : the religion, government, policy, customs, dress, arms, and language of the Indian inhabitants : and some particulars relating to Falkland's Islands.
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Imperfect: map wanting. Compiled from the author's papers, by William Combe. cf. Dict. nat. biog. Thomas Pennant published another account under the title "Of the Patagonians. Formed from the relation of Father Falkener, a Jesuit ..." printed at the private press of George Allan of Darlington in 1788 (40 copies) and reprinted in the appendix to "The literary life of the late Thomas Pennant. By himself," London, 1793. Chapter 6, "An account of the language of the inhabitants of these countries": p. [132]-143. A German translation of this account was pub. separately under the title: Thomas Falkner's nachricht von der moluchischen sprache; separat und unveråndert hrsg. von Julius Platzmann. Leipzig, 1899. (Reprinted from the corresponding chapter of Schack Hermann Ewald's translation of the complete work, Gotha C.W. Ettinger, 1775, and accompanied by a facsimile of the map pub. with this translation, a copy of that designed by the author and engraved by Kitchin) Book.
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