Lionel Wafer, A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America (1699)

Date

1699

Author

Lionel Wafer Note: 15/10/2005

Book title

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, etc. With Remarkable Occurrences in the South sea and elsewhere

Publication place

London

Publisher

James Knapton

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

• Darien (Epera)
• Irish
• travel

Summary

Discusses the Darien Indian language, particularly numbers (pp. 181-83) and general vocabulary (pp. 187-88); and as well the Highlanders Irish language, specifically numbers (pp. 185-86)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: 200. Oychead (p. 186)
Doolah, water. (p. 188)

Alston

XIV.557

Wing

W 193