[1] Battell tells us (p. 7) that he and Thomas Turner were transported to Angola in the same vessel (1590). Purchas conferred with Turner after he had returned to England, and obtained from him an account of his travels, he having “lived the best part of two years in Brazil” (_lib._ vi, c. 8). Elsewhere we learn that he “had also been in Angola” (see p. 71). This apparently straightforward information is quite irreconcilable with what we are told by Knivet; for Knivet says he met Turner at Pernambuco (about 1598); that he advised him to go to Angola; that Turner acted on this advice, and “made great profit of his merchandise, for which he thanked me when we met in England.” Concerning Knivet, see _post_, p. 89. [2] This description does not, of course, apply to his “Voyage to the East Indies,” but it does to his “Description of the whole Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, etc.” [3] His _Schifffarten_ was first published at Basel in 1624. On this traveller, see an _Abhandlung_ by D. G. Henning (Basel, 1900), who rather absurdly calls him the “first German scientific traveller in Africa.” [4] _Vijf verscheyde Journalen ... Amsterdam [1620]._ [5] Subsequent editions appeared in 1614, 1617, and 1626. [6] Battell’s narrative was reprinted in Astley’s _New General Collection of Voyages_, vol. iii (1746), and Pinkerton’s _Collection_, vol. xvi (1813). Translations or abstracts were published in the _Collections_ of Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1706-07); of Gottfried (Leiden, 1706-26); of Prévôt (Paris, 1726-74); in the _Allgemeine Historie der Reisen_ (Leipzig, 1747-77), in the _Historische Beschrijving der Reisen_ (The Hague, 1747-67), and by Walckenaer (Paris, 1826-31). [7] See “The Lake Region of Central Africa: a Contribution to the History of African Cartography,” by E. G. Ravenstein (_Scottish Geogr. Mag._, 1891). [8] Among documents, the publication of which seems desirable are Don G. Abreu de Brito’s _Summario e Descripção do Reino de Angola_, 1592; and Cadornega’s _Historia_ (at least, in abstract). [9] Abraham Cocke had been in the Brazils before this voyage, for we learn from Purchas (bk. vi, Pt. IV, London, 1625, p. 1141) that George, Earl of Cumberland, who had left Gravesend on June 26, 1586, with three ships and a pinnace, fell in, on January 10, 1587, with a Portuguese vessel, a little short of the River Plate, and in her found “Abraham Cock, of Leigh, near London,” whom he brought home with him. [10] Pinnace: formerly applied to any small vessel, usually schooner-rigged; at present limited to a large rowing-boat carried by great ships. [11] Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. [12] Light-horseman: a pinnace, a rowing-boat. [13] Vessels bound for Brazil usually cross the Equator about long. 22° W. If Captain Cock really intended to go direct to Brazil, he had no business at Cabo das Palmas. Can his voyage to S. Thomé really have been, as he says, an involuntary deviation from his direct course?