The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions
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- 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.
- Printed in Germany Lessing-Druckerei—Wiesbaden
- COUNCIL
- THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW BATTELL OF LEIGH IN ESSEX, SENT BY THE PORTUGALS PRISONER TO ANGOLA, WHO LIVED THERE, AND IN THE ADJOINING REGIONS, NEAR EIGHTEEN YEARS.
- § I. Andrew Battel, his Voyage to the River of Plate, who being taken on the coast of Brasill, was sent to Angola. [From the Thames to Cape Palmas.]
- [St. Thomé and the Gulf of Guinea.]
- [Across the Atlantic to the Brazils.]
- [The Rio de la Plata.]
- [A Prisoner of the Portuguese.]
- [Transported to Angola—A Voyage to the Zaire.]
- § II.
- [Trading in Loango.]
- [An Attempted Escape.]
- [A Second Attempt at Escape.]
- [Surrenders to a Portuguese Captain.]
- [A campaign in Lamba.]46
- [A Voyage to Benguella.]
- § III.
- [A Second Voyage to Benguella.]
- [Among the Jagas.]
- [March into the Interior.]
- [Left as an Hostage.]
- [He joins the Jagas.]
- [Military Organisation of the Jagas.]
- [A River of Gold.]
- [Palm Wine.]
- [Jaga Raids.]
- [Dress and Ornaments.]
- [Infanticide.]
- [Human Sacrifices.]108
- [Burial of the Dead.]
- § IV.
- [João Rodrigues Coutinho’s Campaign, 1602.]
- [Manuel Cerveira Pereira carries on the war.]
- [A Trading Trip to Congo.]
- [Final Escape from Captivity.]
- § V.
- [Kabinda.]
- [The Capital of Loango.]
- [A Royal Audience.]
- [The King’s Wives.]142
- [The King Drinks!]
- [The King at Dinner.]144
- [The King as a Rain-maker.]
- [Albinos.]
- [The Nkishi, or Fetishes.]
- [Children are born White.]
- [The Royal Princes.]
- [The Kings Mother.]
- [Palm Cloth.]158
- [The Royal Tombs.]
- [Europeans Committed to the Sea.]
- § VI.
- [Bongo.]
- [Cango.]
- [Calongo.]
- [Gorillas and Chimpanzis.]169
- [Hunting Dogs.]
- [The Maramba Fetish.]172
- [Sette.]
- [Mani Kesock.]178
- [Pygmy Elephant-Hunters.]
- [Poison Ordeals.]
- [Death and Witchcraft.]190
- § VII.
- [Domestic Animals.]
- [Wild Birds.]
- [The Zebra.]
- [The Hippopotamus.]
- [Portuguese dealings with the Natives.]
- [Fishing.]
- [“Corn.”]
- [Ground-nuts.]
- [Plantains, or Bananas.]
- [Bees and the Baobab.]
- [Palm Trees.]
- [A Crocodile Story.]
- [The End.]
- RELIGION AND THE CUSTOMS
- ANGOLA, CONGO AND LOANGO.
- Chap. IX, § I.—Angola. [The Slave Trade.]
- [Fetishes.]
- [Trial by Ordeal.]
- [Burial.]217
- [Dogs.]218
- [Quizama.]
- [Women and the Moon.]
- Chapter IX, § II.—Of Congo. [A Crocodile Story.]221
- Chapter IX, § III.—Of their ... Strange Trees....
- Chapter X, § I.—Of Loango. [Offerings.]
- [Funeral Rites.]
- [Prohibitions—Taboo.]
- [Poison Ordeal.]238
- [Albinos.]241
- [The Gumbiri Fetish.]
- [Possessed of the Fetish.]
- [The Maramba Fetish.]246
- Chap. X, § III.—Of the Giacchi, or Iagges.249 [Origin of the Jagas.]
- [Infanticide among the Jaga.]
- [Human Sacrifices.]
- APPENDIX I.
- ANTHONY KNIVET IN KONGO AND ANGOLA:
- First Account (Purchas, pp. 1220-2).
- Second Account (Purchas, pp. 1233-7).
- APPENDIX II.
- A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF KONGO
- Cão’s Discovery of the Kongo, 1482.298
- Cão’s Second Voyage, 1485-6.
- The Embassy of 1490-1.303
- D. Affonso I, 1509-1540.311
- D. Pedro and his Successors, 1540-1561.
- A Reign of Anarchy, 1561-1568.
- D. Alvaro I and the Ayaka, 1568-1574.344
- D. Alvaro II, 1574-1614.
- D. Pedro II Affonso, 1622-1624.
- D. Pedro’s successors, 1624-1641.
- Garcia II Affonso, o Kimbaku, 1641-1663,359
- D. Antonio I, 1663-66.
- A Time of Anarchy, after 1666.
- A Retrospect.
- APPENDIX III.
- A LIST OF THE KINGS OF KONGO.
- APPENDIX IV.
- A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ANGOLA
- The Early History of Ndongo (Angola).
- The First Expedition of Paulo Dias de Novaes, 1560.
- The Second Expedition of Dias, 1574.
- Dias in the Field, 1578-89.
- Luiz Serrão and the Battle of 1590.
- The Jaga.
- D. Francisco and D. Jeronymo d’Almeida, 1592-1594.
- João Furtado de Mendonça, 1594-1602.
- The Campaign of 1602-3.443
- D. Manuel Pereira Forjaz and Bento Banha Cardoso, 1607-15.
- An Attempt to Cross Africa.
- The Conquest of Benguella.
- The Colonial Government.
- The War with Ngola nzinga mbandi.
- Queen Nzinga, 1623-1636.
- Minor Events, 1624-1641.
- The Dutch in Angola.
- Restoration of Portuguese Authority.
- Queen Nzinga and Her Successors.
- The Last of the Kings of Ndongo, 1671.
- Relations with Kongo.
- Minor Punitive Expeditions, 1658-95.
- Benguella.
- Ecclesiastical Affairs.
- Measures of Administration.
- APPENDIX V.
- A LIST OF THE GOVERNORS OF ANGOLA, 1575-1702.
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX AND GLOSSARY.
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