César de Rochefort, The History of the Caribby-islands (1666)
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Date
1666
Author
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Book title
The history of the Caribby-islands, Viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis, Antego, &c. in all XXVIII. In Two Books. The First containing the Natural; The Second, the Moral History of those Islands. Illustrated with several Pieces of Sculpture, representing the most considerable Rarities therein Described. With A Caribbian-Vocabulary
Publication place
London
Printer
John Macock
Publisher
Thomas Dring and John Starkey
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
travel
Summary
Caribbean vocabulary
Extent
2z1r-3a1v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: 23. They have different names in speaking to persons when they are present, and others when they speak of them; thus they say Baba, Father, speaking to him, and Youmaan, speaking of him; Bibi, Mother, speaking to her, and Ichanum, speaking of her; which, with the difference there is between the Language of the Men and the Women, the young and the old, their ordinary Discourse, and that us'd by them when they are engag'd in Military Deliberations, must needs cause a great multiplication of words in their Language. (p. 262)
sample: 23. They have different names in speaking to persons when they are present, and others when they speak of them; thus they say Baba, Father, speaking to him, and Youmaan, speaking of him; Bibi, Mother, speaking to her, and Ichanum, speaking of her; which, with the difference there is between the Language of the Men and the Women, the young and the old, their ordinary Discourse, and that us'd by them when they are engag'd in Military Deliberations, must needs cause a great multiplication of words in their Language. (p. 262)
Alston
XIV.545
Wing
R 1739-40
