The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton.

  • Thomas Gage
Date:
1928
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Credit: The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    therefore be possible to see at once where a consider¬ able section has been omitted. Omissions of minor passages have been indicated in the usual way by dots [. . .]. Robert Southey maintained in the notes to his poem Madoc that Gage’s account of Mexico which he pretends to have collected on the spot is copied verbatim from T. Nicholas’s translation of Gomara, published as The Conquest of the IVett Indies in 1576.1 This, however, is not the case, and Gage’s translation was made independently from the Spanish authorities. He certainly used Gomara and Oviedo and may also have known Herrera. Doubtless a careful collation would enable us to identify the source of his information in each case. Many of those well- known stories of Cortez and his Conquiltadores have here been omitted, and only those are retained that are of diredt interest in connexion with their context. For further accounts our readers may be appropriately referred to the graphic pages of Prescott. The sources of our contemporary illudlrations are sufficiently indicated in the notes attached to each. 1 Southey, R., Madoc (1st ed. 1805)^.468. XXXll
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