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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 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.

0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Gage, Thomas, Chaloner, Thomas,

First ed. (London, 1648) published under title: The English American, his travail by sea and land. Poem to the author by Thomas Chaloner -- Some brief and short rules for the better learning of the Indian tongue called Poconchi or Pacoman, commonly used about Guatemala and some other parts of Honduras. Book.