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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell - of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Andrew Battell, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell - of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell - of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions: Look inside the book: Pigafetta’s famous Relatione del Reame di Congo, “drawn out of the writings and discourses of Duarte Lopez,” and first published at Rome in 1591, nor the almost equally famous Itinerarium of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, of which an English translation appeared as early as 1598, can be classed among books of travel.2 Samuel Braun, of Basel, who served as barber-surgeon on board Dutch vessels which traded at Luangu and on the Kongo, 1611-13, never left the coast.3 Nor did Pieter van der Broeck, who made three voyages to the Kongo between 1607 and 1612 as supercargo of Dutch vessels, penetrate inland.4 Nay, we are Pg xi even able to claim on behalf of Battell that he travelled by routes not since trodden by European explorers. ...Then we lay east and by south toward the main, and in four and twenty hours we had sight of the Cape de Lopo Gonsalves:17 and being within three leagues of the said cape we cast about and stood again toward the island of San Tome, and turned up on the west side of the island; and coming to a little river, which runneth out of the mountains, we went on shore with our Light-horse-man, with six or seven butts to fill with water.