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
Contributors: Davis, Edward, fl. 1683-1702
Edition: The third edition. / To which are added, the natural history of those parts, by a fellow of the Royal Society: and Davis's expedition to the gold mines, in 1702. Illustrated with several copper-plates.
Publisher: Printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1729
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: Social life and customs; Description and travel; Indians of South America; Indian linguistics; Cuna language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Cuna Indians; Natural history; Gold mines and mining
Other titles: Additional account of several beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, &c. and particularly many trees, shrubs, and herbs, with their names, use, vertues, &c. as has been observ'd in those parts.
Notes: Abridged version of the first edition, printed London, 1699, with additional voyages included in the London, 1702 edition of Wafer's work.

"A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America": p. [261]-398.

"An additional account of several beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, &c. and particularly many trees, shrubs, and herbs, with their names, use, vertues, &c. as has been observ'd in those parts. Communicated by a member of the Royal Society", p. 399-460, is written anonymously, and has separate caption title.

"An expedition of a body of English-men to the gold mines of Spanish America, in 1702. With the many strange adventures that befel them in that bold undertaking. By Nathaniel Davis", p. 461-463 [i.e. 475], has separate caption title.

"Of the Indian Inhabitants; their manners, customs, &c.", p. 344-347, 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. 373-374 compared with cardinal numbers in the Gaelic language on p. 375-376, and a brief selection of vocabulary and phrases in the Cuna language on p. 377.

Bound as 3rd item of 3 in vol. 3 of: A collection of voyages / by William Dampier, London 1729.

Signatures: S3-8 T-2H 2I²

Errors in paging: p. 466, 467, 470, 471, 474, and 475 misnumbered 544, 456, 450, 451, 462, and 463.

Includes index.

Woodcut head and tail pieces.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 729/69.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III:428.

ESTC T144458.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.