John Smith, A Map of Virginia (1612)

Date

1612

Author

John Smith Note: 14/10/2005

Lexicon title

Because many doe desire to knowe the maner of their language, I haue inserted these few words

Book title

A Map of Virginia. With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion. Written by Captaine Smith, sometimes Governour of the Countrey. Whereunto is Annexed the proceedings of those Colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, Orations, and relations of the Salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their Iournies and discoveries. Taken Faithfully as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Russell. Tho. Studley. Anas Todkill. Ieffra Abot. Richard Wiefin. Will. Phettiplace. Nathaniel Powell. Richard Pots. And the relations of divers other diligent observers there present then, and now many of them in England

Publication place

Oxford

Publisher

Joseph Barnes

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Algonkian

Language

headwords: Algonquin
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

*3r-4r

Word-group

type: topical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Kekaten pokahontas patiaquagh niugh tanks manotyens neer mowchick rawrenock audowgh. Bid Pokahontas bring hither two little Baskets, & I wil giue her white beads to make her a chaine.

STC

22791

Facsimiles

Smith, John. A Map of Virginia. With a Description of the Covntrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion. The English experience, no. 557. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1973. view record

Criticisms

Barbour, Philip L. "The Earliest Reconnaissance of the Chesapeake Bay Area: Captain John Smith's Map and Indian Vocabulary." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 79-80 (1971-72): 280-302, 21-51. view record