A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America
Subtitle: giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c. The Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. With remarkable occurrences in the South Sea, and elsewhere
By: By Lionel Wafer. Illustrated with several copper-plates
Publisher: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; sai
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Social life and customs; Description and travel; Indians of South America; Indian linguistics; Cuna language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Catalogs, Booksellers'; Cuna Indians; Natural history
Other titles: Mr. Wafer's Description of the Isthmus of America.
Notes: "Of the Indian Inhabitants; their manners, customs, &c.", p. 131-188, contains a discussion of the Cuna Indians of Panama and their language as it compares to Irish and Scots Gaelic. Includes cardinal numbers in the Cuna language on p. 181-182 compared with cardinal numbers in the Gaelic language on p. 185-186, and a brief selection of vocabulary and phrases in the Cuna language on p. 187-188.

Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1 verso blank) B-Q⁸

Errata: p. [8], 1st count.

Includes index.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [15-16], 3rd count.

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) W193.

Arents, G.  Tobacco, 438.

Scott, J.  Darien Company, 81.

Field, T.W.  Indian bib., 1617.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 373442.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 699/223.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1482-1700, II:1579.

ESTC R6953.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf, rebacked.