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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.

Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705? · 1699 · London : Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard · 5 pictures

A 1699 London account by surgeon Lionel Wafer, published by James Knapton, describing his time on the Isthmus of Panama and the Cuna Indians there, their customs, land and wildlife. The copperplate engravings show Indigenous figures in village houses and on the shore, plus a regional map, offering a detailed reference for tropical and ethnographic scenes.

Natural history · Cuna Indians · Indians of South America · Cuna language · Catalogs, Booksellers' · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1699

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