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The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the adjoining regions
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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.
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London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1901.
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1 online resource (xx, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
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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)
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the British Library.
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Slavery, abolition & social justice.
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Language
English
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October 24, 2023
Series
Slavery, abolition & social justice
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. VI
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [xviii]-xx), glossary and index.
Contents
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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