A 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 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 twelve years about Guatemala, and especially in the Indian-towns of Mexico, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan : as also his strange and wonderfull 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, 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 friers, blackamores, 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 Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656 Cotes, E. (Ellen), printer Sweeting, John, -1661 bookseller Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) text enk monographic London Printed by E. Cotes, and sold by John Sweeting ... 1655 The second edition enlarged by the author, and beautified with maps. eng

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[8], 220, [12] p., [4] leaves of plates : maps ; 29 cm. (fol.) by the true and painful endeavors of Thomas Gage ... The author's name appears after the edition statement. First edition, London, 1648, published under title: The English American his travail by sea and land. Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-T⁶ U⁸. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. n-mx--- nc----- Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656 Travel Catholic Church Missions Indians Missions Early works to 1800 Pokonchi language Grammar Early works to 1800 Mexico Description and travel Early works to 1800 Central America Description and travel Early works to 1800 England London F1211 .G14 Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/kislak.04661.1 G113 26299 R22620 02004661 hdl:loc.rbc/kislak.04661.1 aacr dcrb DLC 830106 20250608014732.4 7725436 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)