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

Note 408 — 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

See his account of this battle in Boletim, 1883, p. 378. The story in the Catalogo, that Dias sent loads of cut-off noses to S. Paulo, is hardly credible.

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.