The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), São João Baptista (1622), and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa. Edited from the original Portuguese, by C.R. Boxer.

By:

Brito, Bernardo Gomes de, 1688-1760?

Contributor(s):

Boxer, C. R. (Charles Ralph), 1904-2000

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 112.Publication details: Cambridge, Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) illustrations, portrait, maps, facsimilesContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781409417170
1409417174
9781409417194
1409414809
9781409414803
1409414787
9781409414780
1409417190
9781409417194

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

946.902

LOC classification:

G161 .H2 2d ser., no. 112

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Contents:

Narrative of the shipwreck of the great ship São Thomé, in the land of the Fumos, in the year 1589 / Diogo do Couto -- Shipwreck of the great ship Santo Alberto, and itinerary of the people, who were saved from it, 1593 / João Baptista Lavanha -- Treatise of the misfortune that befell the great ship São João Baptista, 1622 / Francisco Vaz d'Almada -- Appendices. Pay and allowances of the complement of a typical Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1600 -- Provisions of an outward-bound Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1600 -- Allotment of deck and cargo space in a homeward-bound Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1600 -- Allowance of liberty-chests on board a Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1620.

Summary: These three narratives are representative of a number of shipwrecks of homeward-bound ships off the coast of Natal where the survivors tried to march overland to the Portuguese trading stations. They give information about the obverse side of Portuguese East India trade and about the historical ethnography of South East Africa.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.

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These three narratives are representative of a number of shipwrecks of homeward-bound ships off the coast of Natal where the survivors tried to march overland to the Portuguese trading stations. They give information about the obverse side of Portuguese East India trade and about the historical ethnography of South East Africa.

Translation of selections from: Historia trágico-marítima compiled by Bernardo Gomes de Brito.

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