ABSTRACT

FIVE miles from Sancte Vincente is a place called Brikioka.35 Here the people are in touch with the savages, their enemies, who sail thither between an island called Sancto Maro36 and the mainland. At this point a number of mameluke37 brethren were stationed to protect the passage. Their father was a Portuguese and their mother was a Brazilian woman, and they were skilful and experienced both in Christian and savage speech and customs. The eldest among them was called Johan de Praga, the second Diego de Praga, the third Domingus de Praga, the fourth Francisco de Praga, the fifth Andreas de Praga, and the father was known as Diego de Praga.