The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the adjoining regions / edited, with notes and a concise history of Kongo and Angola by E.G. Ravenstein

Author:: Battell, Andrew
Published:: London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1901.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xx, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators:: Ravenstein, Ernst Georg, 1834-1913, Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626, Knivet, Anthony, active 1591-1649, British Library, and Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)

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Appendices: I. Anthony Knivet in Kongo and Angola : being 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 -- II. A sketch of the history of Kongo to the end of the seventeenth century -- III. A list of the kings of Kongo [to 1709] -- IV. A sketch of the history of Angola to the end of the seventeenth century -- V. A list of the governors of Angola, 1575-1702

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Reprinted from Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625.
"On the religion and the customs of the peoples of Angola, Congo and Loango": pages [71]-87. (Taken from the compilation in Purchas his Pilgrimage, 1617, book 7. Gives only the accounts by Andrew Battel and Thomas Turner)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [xviii]-xx), glossary and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the British Library.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2013 (Slavery, abolition & social justice)

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British Library

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