Waikna; or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore. By Samuel A. Bard.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47, Ludgate Hill, 1855.
Price: $150.00
About the item
First London Edition. Illustrated title, full-page map (at p. 120 & 54 other text illus. (6 full-page). [ix] 366 pp. 8vo. Quarter-bound in modern brown calf over cloth. Fine, stamp of Liverpool Library on verso of title-page. Sabin 90002; Smith S132; Humphreys 1710.
Item #318105
Colorfully fictionalized account of the artist/writer's prolonged sojourn on the Mosquito Coast (of present-day Nicaragua) after a shipwreck, with accounts of life in the Mosquito capital city of Bluefields, Mosquito and Carib Indian customs, hunting tapir and the manitus or sea-cow, river travels, folklore, and stories. A lengthy historical sketch, extracts from earlier literature, and a brief vocabulary of the Mosquito language are included.
