A new survey of the West-Indies: or, The English American his travel by sea and land
Subtitle: 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 S. John de Ulhua; and thence to Xalappa, to Tlaxcalla, 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 XII. years about Guatemala, especiall [sic] in the Indian town of Mixco, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan. As also his strange and wonderful conversion and calling from those remote parts to his native countrey: with his return through the province of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto Bello, Cartagena and Havana, with divers occurents 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, behavior of Spaniards, priests and friers, black-moors, mulatto's, mestitso's, Indians; and of their feasts and solemnities. With a grammar, or some of few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman
By: By Thomas Gage
Edition: The third edition enlarged by the author, with a new and accurate map.
Publisher: Printed by A. Clark, and are to be sold by J. Martyn, Robert Horn and Walter Kettilby
Published: 1677
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
Subjects: Social life and customs; Grammar; Missions; Indian linguistics; Pokomam language; Chocolate; Cocoa; Mayas; Indians of Central America; Chocolate drinks; Pokonchi language; Description and travel
Other titles: New survey of the West-Indies.; English American his travel by sea and land.
Work titles: English-American
Notes: First published London, 1648 under title: The English-American, his travail by sea and land. In this edition, Chalmoner's poem and chapter 22 have been omitted.

Primarily in English but includes passages in Latin and Spanish.

"Concerning two daily and common drinks, or potions much used in the India's [sic], called chocolatte, and atolle": p. 238-248.

Includes "Some brief and short rules for the learning of the Indian tongue called Pochonchi or Pocoman": p. 465-577 [i.e. 477]

Signatures: A⁴ (sig. A missigned B) B-2I⁸ (-2I8) (2H6 verso blank)

Errors in paging: p. 369, 372-373, 376-377, and 380-381 misnumbered 371, 374-375, 378-379, and 382-383.

Title within double rule border; head pieces; initials.

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) G114.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 96481.

Cundall, F. West Indies, 1978n.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:2125.

Pilling, J.C.  North American Indians, 1365.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 677/96.

JCB. Lib. cat., 1675-1700, p. 37-38.

ESTC R13282.

John Carter Brown Library has map of the West Indies printed for Geography reformed; or A new system of general geography, London, 1739 tipped in at end.