قراءة كتاب The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions
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The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions
WORKS ISSUED BY
The Hakluyt Society
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES
OF
ANDREW BATTELL.
SECOND SERIES.
No. VI.
THE
STRANGE ADVENTURES
OF
ANDREW BATTELL
OF LEIGH,
IN ANGOLA AND THE ADJOINING REGIONS.
REPRINTED FROM “PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES.”
Edited, with Notes and a Concise
HISTORY OF KONGO AND ANGOLA,
BY
E. G. RAVENSTEIN.
Reproduced, by permission of the
HAKLUYT SOCIETY
from the edition originally published by the Society
in 1901
KRAUS REPRINT LIMITED
Nendeln/Liechtenstein
1967
Printed in Germany
Lessing-Druckerei—Wiesbaden
COUNCIL
OF
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S., President.
The Right Hon. The Lord Stanley of Alderley, Vice-President.
Rear-Admiral Sir William Wharton, K.C.B., Vice-President.
Commr. B. M. Chambers, R.N.
C. Raymond Beazley, M.A.
Colonel G. Earl Church.
Sir W. Martin Conway.
F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A., M.D.
Edward Heawood, M.A.
Dudley F. A. Hervey, C.M.G.
E. F. Im Thurn, C.B., C.M.G.
J. Scott Keltie, LL.D.
F. W. Lucas.
A. P. Maudslay.
E. J. Payne, M.A.
Howard Saunders.
H. W. Trinder.
Charles Welch, F.S.A.
William Foster, B.A., Honorary Secretary.
CONTENTS.
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Introduction |
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Bibliography |
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| The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh. | ||
| I. |
Andrew Battell, his voyage to the River of Plate, who being taken on to the coast of Brazill was sent to Angola |
1 |
| II. |
His trading on the coast; offer to escape; imprisonment; exile; escape and new imprisonment; his sending to Elamba and Bahia das Vaccas; many strange occurrences |
9 |
| III. |
Discovery of the Gagas: their wars, man-eating; over-running countries. His trade with them, betraying, escape to them, and living with them; with many strange adventures. And also the rites and manner of life observed by the Iagges, or Gagas, which no Christian would ever know well but this author |
19 |
| IV. |
His return to the Portugals: invasions of diverse countries; abuses; flight from them, and living in the woods divers months; his strange boat and coming to Loango |
36 |
| V. |
Of the province of Engoy, and other regions of Loango; with the customs there observed by the King and people |
42 |
| VI. |
Of the provinces of Bongo, Calongo, Mayombe, Manikesocke, Motimbas; of the ape-monster Pongo; their Hunting, Idolatries, and divers other observations |
52 |
| VII. |
Of the Zebra and Hippopotamus; the Portuguese Wars in those parts; the Fishing, Grain, and other things remarkable |
63 |
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On the Religion and the Customs of the Peoples of Angola, Congo, and Loango, from Purchas His Pilgrimage, 1613 (1617) |
71 | |
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| APPENDICES. | ||
| I. |
Anthony Knivet in Kongo and Angola |
89 |
| II. |
A Sketch of the History of Kongo to the end of the Seventeenth Century |
102 |
| III. |
A List of | |