The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining RegionsBattell, Andrew
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The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions
Battell, Andrew
Angola -- Discovery and exploration; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Discovery and exploration
ALGUNS DOC.—Alguns documentos do archivo nacional da Torre do
Tombo ácerca das navegações e conquistas Portuguezas. Lisboa
(Impr. nac.), 1892.
A Collection of documents, 1416-1554, edited by José
Ramos-Coelho. See Index _sub_ Angola, Kongo, Manicongo.
PAIVA MANSO.—Historia do Congo, obra posthuma do (Dr. Levy) Visconde de
Paiva Manso. Lisboa (Typ. da Acad.), 1877.
A collection of documents, 1492-1722.
BOLETIM.—Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa.
The volume for 1883 contains documents now in the Bibliothéque
Nationale (instructions given to B. Dias, 1559; Letters of F.
Garcia Simões, F. Balthasar Barretta, and other Jesuits).
Memorias do Ultramar, Viagens explorações e conquistas do
Portuguezes. Collecção de Documentos por Luciano Cordeira.
Lisboa (Impr. nac.) 1881.
The following Parts have been published:—
GARCIA MENDES.
(_a_) 1574-1620. Da Mina ao Cabo Negro segundo Garcia Mendes
Castello Branco (the writer of these reports was one of the
companions of Paulo Dias de Novaes).
REBELLO DE ARAGÃO.
(_b_) 1593-1631. Terras e Minas Africanas segundo Balthazar
Rebello de Aragão. (He went out to Africa in 1593).
BENGUELLA E SEU SERTÃO.
(_c_) 1617-1622. Benguella e seu sertão per um Anonymo. (The
author of this account of the conquest of Benguella may
possibly have been Manuel Cerveira Pereira).
ESTABELECIMENTOS.
(_d_) 1607. Estabelecimentos e Resgates Portuguezes na costa
occidental de Africa por um Anonymo.
ESCRAVOS E MIMAS.
(_e_) 1516-1619. Escravos e Minas de Africa segundo Diversos.
D. LOPEZ.—Relatione del Reame di Congo e delle circonvicine
contrade tratta dalli Scritti e ragionamente di Odoardo Lopez,
per Filippo Pigafetta. Roma, 1591.
This work has been translated into Latin, German, Dutch,
French and English, but has not hitherto found a competent
editor. I quote the English translation by Mrs. M. Hutchinson,
published at London in 1881.
Duarte Lopez went out to Kongo in 1578; and the bulk of this
volume is based upon information imparted to his editor when
he was in Rome in 1591. Pigafetta has most unwisely expanded
the information thus obtained into a description of the
greater part of Africa.
CAVAZZI.—Istorica descrizione de’ tre regni Congo, Matamba, e Angola,
accuratamente compilata, dal P. Gio. Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo.
Bologna, 1687.
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