A new survey of the West-India's, 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 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 /
by the true and painful endeavors of Thomas Gage, preacher of the word of God at Deal in the county of Kent.

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Main Author
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656
Related Names
Sweeting, John, -1661, bookseller.
Cotes, E. (Ellen), printer.
Language(s)
English
Published
London : Printed by E. Cotes, and sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-head-alley, M.DC.LV. [1655]
Edition
The second edition enlarged by the author, and beautified with maps.
Subjects
Gage, Thomas, > 1603?-1656.
Gage, Thomas, > 1603?-1656 > Travel.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Missions.
Catholic Church > Missions.
Travel.
Pokonchi language > Grammar.
Missions.
Indians > Missions.
Pocomchi (Langue) > Grammaire > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Peuples autochtones > Missions > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Misiones > Hispanoamérica.
Iglesia católica > Misiones.
Pokonchi language > Grammar > Early works to 1800.
Indigenous peoples > Missions > America > Early works to 1800.
Missions > Latin America > Early works to 1800.
Mexico.
Central America.
Amérique centrale > Descriptions et voyages > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Mexique > Descriptions et voyages > Ouvrages avant 1800.
América Central > Descripción y viajes.
Central America > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Mexico > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
America > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800.
Travel writing.
Maps.
Early works.
Note
With six final contents leaves.
With an engraved frontispiece map (plate).
Head-pieces; initials.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-T⁶ U⁸.
Title printed within double rules.
Originally published as "The English American his travail by sea and land" in 1648.
The author's name appears after the edition statement.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Physical Description
[10], 220, [12] pages, [4] leaves of plates : maps (engravings) ; 29 cm (fol.)
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