Category: Travel Writing
... Andrew Battell told me of a huge crocodile which was reported to have eaten a whole _Alibamba_, that is, a company of eight or nine slaves chained together, and at last paid for his greediness: the chain holding him slave, as before it had the negroes, and by his undigesti...
... Andrew Battell lived among them [the Bramas of Loango][230] for two years and a half. They are, saith he, heathens, and observe many superstitions. They have their _Mokissos...
2. CHAPTER IX, § III.—OF THEIR ... STRANGE TREES....Having stated that they use in Congo to make “clothes of the _Enzanda_ tree,[222] of which some write the same things that are reported of the Indian fig-tree,” that it sends fo...
1. CHAPTER IX, § II.—OF CONGO.... Andrew Battell told me of a huge crocodile which was reported to have eaten a whole _Alibamba_, that is, a company of eight or nine slaves chained together, and at last paid...