┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Transcriber’s note: │ │ │ │ Words with bold characters are enclosed within “+” signs. │ │ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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.
PAGE INTRODUCTION i
BIBLIOGRAPHY xviii
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
ON THE RELIGION AND THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLES OF ANGOLA, CONGO, AND LOANGO, from Purchas His Pilgrimage, 1613 (1617) 71
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 THE KINGS OF KONGO 136
IV. A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ANGOLA TO THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 139
V. A LIST OF THE GOVERNORS OF ANGOLA 188
INDEX AND GLOSSARY 191
MAPS.
A GENERAL MAP OF KONGO AND ANGOLA.
AN ENLARGED MAP OF ANGOLA.