History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil

Janet Whatley is Professor of French at the University of Vermont.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSTRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTIONLERY'S DEDICATIONPREFACECHAPTER IOf the Motive and the Occasion That Made Us UndertakeThis Distant Voyage to the Land of BrazilCHAPTER IIOf 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 DiscoveredCHAPTER IIIOf the Bonitos, Albacore, Gilt-fish, Porpoises, Flying Fish,and Others of Various Kinds That We Saw and Took in theTorrid ZoneCHAPTER IVOf 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 inThat RegionCHAPTER VOf the Sighting and First View That We Had Both of WestIndia or the Land of Brazil and of the Savages That Inhabit ItTogether with Everything That Happened to Us on the Seaup to the Tropic of CapricornCHAPTER VIOf Our Landing at Fort Coligny in the Land of Brazil. Of theReception That Villegagnon Gave Us, and of His Behavior,Regarding Both Religion and Other Aspects of His Governmentin That CountryCHAPTER VIIA Description of the Bay of Guanabara Otherwise Calledjaneiro in America; of the Island and Fort of Coligny, WhichWas Built on It; Together with the Other Islands in the RegionCHAPTER VIIIOf the Natural Qualities, Strength, Stature, Nudity, Dispositionand Ornamentation of the Body of the Brazilian Savages,Both Men and Women, Who Live in America, andWhom I Frequented for about a YearCHAPTER IXOf the Big Roots and the Millet of Which the Savages MakeFlour That They Eat Instead of Bread; and of Their Drink,Which They Call CaouinCHAPTER XOf the Animals, Kinds of Venison, Big Lizards, Snakes, andOther Monstrous Beasts of AmericaCHAPTER XIOf the Variety of Birds of America, All Different from Ours;Together with the Big Bats, Bees, Flies, Gnats and OtherStrange Vermin of That LandCHAPTER XIIOf Some Fish That Are Common among the Savages ofAmerica, and of Their Manner of FishingCHAPTER XIIIOf the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced bythe Land of BrazilCHAPTER XIVOf the War, Combats, Boldness, and Arms of the Savages ofAmericaCHAPTER XVHow the Americans Treat Their Prisoners of War and theCeremonies They Observe .Both in Killing and in EatingThemCHAPTER XVIWhat One Might Call Religion among the Savage Americans:Of the Errors in Which Certain Charlatans CalledCaraibes Hold Them in Thrall; and of the Great Ignoranceof God in Which They Are PlungedCHAPTER XVIIOf Marriage, Polygamy, and Degrees of Consanguinity Observedby the Savages; and of the Treatment of Their LittleChildrenCHAPTER XVIIIWhat One May Call Laws and Civil Order among the Savages:How Humanely They Treat and Receive Friends WhoVisit Them; and of the Tears and Joyous Speeches That theWomen Make to Welcome ThemCHAPTER XIXHow the Savages Treat Each Other in Their Illnesses Togetherwith Their Burials and Funeral Ceremonies and theGreat Lamentations They Make over Their DeadCHAPTER XXColloquy upon Entry or Arrival in the Land of Brazil amongthe People of the Country Called Tupinamba andTupinenquin: in the Savage Language and in FrenchCHAPTER XXIOf Our Departure from the Land of Brazil, Called America;Together with the Shipwrecks and Other Perils That We Escapedon the Sea during Our ReturnCHAPTER XXIIOf the Extreme Famine, Tempests, and Other Dangers fromWhich God Delivered Us as We Were Returning to FranceEDITIONS AND RECEPTION OF LERYNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY