sexta-feira, outubro 25, 2013

A new survey of the West-India's (...) - Thomas Gage (1655)




Gage, Thomas - A new survey of the West-India's [sic]: 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 Xalappa, to Tlaxcalla, the City of Angeles, 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 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, 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, London : printed by E. Cotes, and sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-Head-Alley, 1655.
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Historie del S.D. Fernando Colombo - Fernando Colón

Colón , Fernando; Ulloa , Alfonso de; Pané , Ramón  - Historie del S.D. Fernando Colombo; : nelle quali s'ha particolare, & v...