The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions

Note 400 — Extracts from “The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his Second Voyage to the South Sea, 1591,” published in Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part IV, lib. vi, c. 7. London, 1625.

Reading edition

Domingos d’Abreu de Brito, in a MS. of 1592, quoted by Lima, Ensaios, p. x. Garcia Mendes mentions seven hundred men, but these probably included the crews of the vessels.

Return to Extracts from “The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his Second Voyage to the South Sea, 1591,” published in Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part IV, lib. vi, c. 7. London, 1625.