MAP OF KONGO & ANGOLA
illustrating their
HISTORY TO THE CLOSE OF THE 17TH CENTURY
MAP OF NDONGO (ANGOLA)
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Battell tells us (p. 7) that he and Thomas Turner were transported to Angola in the same vessel (1590). Purchas conferred with Turner after he had returned to England, and obtained from him an account of his travels, he having “lived the best part of two years in Brazil” (lib. vi, c. 8). Elsewhere we learn that he “had also been in Angola” (see p. 71).
This apparently straightforward information is quite irreconcilable with what we are told by Knivet; for Knivet says he met Turner at Pernambuco (about 1598); that he advised him to go to Angola; that Turner acted on this advice, and “made great profit of his merchandise, for which he thanked me when we met in England.” Concerning Knivet, see post, p. 89.
[2] This description does not, of course, apply to his “Voyage to the East Indies,” but it does to his “Description of the whole Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, etc.”