[3] His Schifffarten was first published at Basel in 1624. On this traveller, see an Abhandlung by D. G. Henning (Basel, 1900), who rather absurdly calls him the “first German scientific traveller in Africa.”
[4] Vijf verscheyde Journalen ... Amsterdam [1620].
[5] Subsequent editions appeared in 1614, 1617, and 1626.
[6] Battell’s narrative was reprinted in Astley’s New General Collection of Voyages, vol. iii (1746), and Pinkerton’s Collection, vol. xvi (1813). Translations or abstracts were published in the Collections of Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1706-07); of Gottfried (Leiden, 1706-26); of Prévôt (Paris, 1726-74); in the Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (Leipzig, 1747-77), in the Historische Beschrijving der Reisen (The Hague, 1747-67), and by Walckenaer (Paris, 1826-31).
[7] See “The Lake Region of Central Africa: a Contribution to the History of African Cartography,” by E. G. Ravenstein (Scottish Geogr. Mag., 1891).
[8] Among documents, the publication of which seems desirable are Don G. Abreu de Brito’s Summario e Descripção do Reino de Angola, 1592; and Cadornega’s Historia (at least, in abstract).
[9] Abraham Cocke had been in the Brazils before this voyage, for we learn from Purchas (bk. vi, Pt. IV, London, 1625, p. 1141) that George, Earl of Cumberland, who had left Gravesend on June 26, 1586, with three ships and a pinnace, fell in, on January 10, 1587, with a Portuguese vessel, a little short of the River Plate, and in her found “Abraham Cock, of Leigh, near London,” whom he brought home with him.
[10] Pinnace: formerly applied to any small vessel, usually schooner-rigged; at present limited to a large rowing-boat carried by great ships.
[11] Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands.
[12] Light-horseman: a pinnace, a rowing-boat.