A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. : Giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c. The Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. With remarkable occurrences in the south-sea and elsewhere., By Lionel Wafer

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A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. : Giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c. The Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. With remarkable occurrences in the south-sea and elsewhere., By Lionel Wafer

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• https://archive.org/details/newvoyagedescrip03wafe
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Title remainder

Giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c. The Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. With remarkable occurrences in the south-sea and elsewhere.

Statement of responsibility

By Lionel Wafer

Instantiates

• A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. : Giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c. The Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. With remarkable occurrences in the south-sea and elsewhere.

Publication

• London, Printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCXXIX. 1729

Note

• Abridged version of the first edition, printed London, 1699, with additional voyages included in the London, 1702 edition of Wafer's work
• "A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America": p. [261]-398
• "An additional account of several beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, &c. and particularly many trees, shrubs, and herbs, with their names, use, vertues, &c. as has been observ'd in those parts. Communicated by a member of the Royal Society", p. 399-460, is written anonymously, and has separate caption title
• "An expedition of a body of English-men to the gold mines of Spanish America, in 1702. With the many strange adventures that befel them in that bold undertaking. By Nathaniel Davis", p. 461-463 [i.e. 475], has separate caption title
• "Of the Indian Inhabitants; their manners, customs, &c.", p. 344-347, contains a discussion of the Cuna Indians of Panama and their language as it compares to Irish and Scots Gaelic. Includes cardinal numbers in the Cuna language on p. 373-374 compared with cardinal numbers in the Gaelic language on p. 375-376, and a brief selection of vocabulary and phrases in the Cuna language on p. 377
• Bound as 3rd item of 3 in vol. 3 of: A collection of voyages / by William Dampier, London 1729
• Signatures: S3-8 T-2H 2I2
• Errors in paging: p. 466, 467, 470, 471, 474, and 475 misnumbered 544, 456, 450, 451, 462, and 463
• Includes index
• Woodcut head and tail pieces

Edition

• The third edition. /
• To which are added, the natural history of those parts, by a fellow of the Royal Society: and Davis's expedition to the gold mines, in 1702. Illustrated with several copper-plates.

Extent

1 online resource (pages [261]-463 [i.e. 475], [9] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates

Form of item

online

Note

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.

Other physical details

illustrations, map)

Record ID

newvoyagedescrip03wafe

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