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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK.

I.

Or two voyages completed by Hans Stade in eight and a-half years.^[1]

The first voyage was made from Portugal, and the other from Spain to the New World.^[2]

II.

How in the country of the wild tribe named Toppinikin^[3] (who are subject to the king of Portugal) he was employed as a gunner against the enemy.

Lastly, taken prisoner by the enemy and led away, he was ten and a-half months in danger of being killed and eaten by the enemy.

III.

Also, how God mercifully and miraculously released this prisoner in the before-mentioned year, and how he returned again home to his beloved fatherland.

All given in print for the glory of God and in
thankfulness of His kind mercy.

↑ The original says "in neundthalb jaren." This can only mean eight years and a half, and is evidently intended to cover the time between first leaving home and last returning to it.
↑ The first voyage lasted sixteen months, from April 29, 1547, to October 8, 1548.
The second lasted about six years, from the fourth day after Easter, 1549, to February 20, 1555.
Thus the total was, in round numbers, seven years and a half.
↑ The Tupiniquins (Tupi-n-ikis), meaning limitrophe or contiguous Tupis or Tupi neighbours, are called by Jean de Lery Tooupinamkiy, and by Gabriel Soares Tupy-namquis, and are often alluded to in these pages (chapters 14, 44, 50). They are located about the captaincies of the Ilhéos, Porto Seguro and Espirito Santo, and de Laet gives them the character of being most vindictive and destructive. They fought against the Aymorés: as will presently appear, they were friendly with the Portuguese, and on terms of deadly hatred with the Tupinambás and the French, who were then bent upon converting the Brazil into a France Méridionale or a France Antarctique.

[1] The original says "in neundthalb jaren." This can only mean eight years and a half, and is evidently intended to cover the time between first leaving home and last returning to it.

[2] The first voyage lasted sixteen months, from April 29, 1547, to October 8, 1548.
The second lasted about six years, from the fourth day after Easter, 1549, to February 20, 1555.
Thus the total was, in round numbers, seven years and a half.

[3] The Tupiniquins (Tupi-n-ikis), meaning limitrophe or contiguous Tupis or Tupi neighbours, are called by Jean de Lery Tooupinamkiy, and by Gabriel Soares Tupy-namquis, and are often alluded to in these pages (chapters 14, 44, 50). They are located about the captaincies of the Ilhéos, Porto Seguro and Espirito Santo, and de Laet gives them the character of being most vindictive and destructive. They fought against the Aymorés: as will presently appear, they were friendly with the Portuguese, and on terms of deadly hatred with the Tupinambás and the French, who were then bent upon converting the Brazil into a France Méridionale or a France Antarctique.

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