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A new survey of the West-Indies: or, The English American his travel by sea and land: containing a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America... With a grammar, or some of few rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman.
London: Andrew Clark, for John Martyn, Robert Horn, and Walter Kettilby , 1677
Physical Description: [8], 383, 386-577 [i.e. 477], [19] p., [2] folded leaves of plates (1 double) : map ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D677/ G133n
Accession number: 0884
Notes:
"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].
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.
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Languages: Pokomam / Pokonchi
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
