When the famous anthropologist Claude L?vi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de L?ry'sHistory of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil. L?ry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World.
Janet Whatleyis Professor of French at the University of Vermont.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
LERY'S DEDICATION
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
Of the Motive and the Occasion That Made Us Undertake
This Distant Voyage to the Land of Brazil
CHAPTER II
Of Our Embarkation at the Port of Honfleur in Normandy,
Together with the Tempests, Encounters, Seizure of Ships,
and the First Lands and Islands That We Discovered
CHAPTER III
Of the Bonitos, Albacore, Gilt-fish, Porpoises, Flying Fish,
and Others of Various Kinds That We Saw and Took in the
Torrid Zone
CHAPTER IV
Of the Equator, or Equinoctial Line: Together with the Tempests,
the Fickleness of Winds, the Pestilent Rains, the Heat,
the Thirst, and Other Inconveniences That We Endured in
That Region
CHAPTER V
Of the Sighting and First View That We Had Both of West
India or the Land of Brazil and of the Savages That Inhabit It
Together with Everything That Happened to Us on the Sea
up to the Tropic of Capricorn
CHAPTER VI
Of Our Landing at Fort Coligny in the Land of Brazil. Of the
Reception That Villegagnon Gave Us, and of His Behavior,
Regarding Both Religion and Other Aspects of His Government
in That Country
CHAPTER VII
A Description of the Bay of Guanabara Otherwise Called
janeiro in America; of the Island and Fort of Coligny, Wl3X
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