Adrien Delmas, Ph.D. (2010) in History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, is currently reseacher at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published on travel writing in the early modern world, including Les voyages de l’écrit. Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l’époque moderne, essais sur la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales (Honoré Champion, 2011).Nigel Penn, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Cape Town, is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively in early Cape colonial history including The Forgotten Frontier (University of Ohio Press, 2005).

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments ................................................................................................ viiForeword: Writing at Sea Isabel Hofmeyr ....................................................... ixContributors ............................................................................................................ xiiiIntroduction: The written word and the worldAdrien Delmas ................................................................................................... xviiPart I1. Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: The Libyco-Berber exampleJean-Loïc Le Quellec ......................................................................................... 32. From pictures to letters: The early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo’s alphabetisation process during the 16th centuryPatrick Johansson .............................................................................................. 313. Edmond R. Smith’s writing lesson: Archive and representation in 19th-century AraucaníaAndré Menard .................................................................................................... 57Part II4. Missionary knowledge in context: Geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuriesHervé Pennec ...................................................................................................... 755. From travelling to history: An outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th centuryAdrien Delmas ................................................................................................... 976. Towards an archaeology of globalisation: Readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological–political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th–17th centuries)Fabián Javier Ludueña Romandini ............................................................... 127Part III7. Charlevoix and the American savage: The 18th-century traveller as moralistDavid J. Culpin ................................................................................................ 1498. Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: From travel writingto Kolb’s ‘Full Description’Nigel Penn ......................................................................................................... 1719. Nothing new under the sun: Anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1880–1910Peter Merrington ............................................................................................ 195Part IV10. Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th centuryJulio Esteban Vezub ....................................................................................... 21511. To my Dear Minister: Official letters of African Wesleyan Evangelists in the late 19th-century TransvaalLize Kriel .......................................................................................................... 24312. Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: Documents and practices across spaces and social economiesMastin Prinsloo ............................................................................................. 259Part V13. The ‘painting’ of black history: The Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812)Jorge Pavez Ojeda ........................................................................................... 28314. On not spreading the Word: Ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th centuryGerald Groenewald ........................................................................................ 31715. Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American cultureJosé Emilio Burucúa ...................................................................................... 341Index ......................................................................................................................... 373

Adrien Delmas, Ph.D. (2010) in History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, is currently reseacher at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published on travel writing in the early modern world, including Les voyages de l’écrit. Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l’époque moderne, essais sur la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales (Honoré Champion, 2011).Nigel Penn, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Cape Town, is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively in early Cape colonial history including The Forgotten Frontier (University of Ohio Press, 2005).

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments ................................................................................................ viiForeword: Writing at Sea Isabel Hofmeyr ....................................................... ixContributors ............................................................................................................ xiiiIntroduction: The written word and the worldAdrien Delmas ................................................................................................... xviiPart I1. Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: The Libyco-Berber exampleJean-Loïc Le Quellec ......................................................................................... 32. From pictures to letters: The early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo’s alphabetisation process during the 16th centuryPatrick Johansson .............................................................................................. 313. Edmond R. Smith’s writing lesson: Archive and representation in 19th-century AraucaníaAndré Menard .................................................................................................... 57Part II4. Missionary knowledge in context: Geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuriesHervé Pennec ...................................................................................................... 755. From travelling to history: An outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th centuryAdrien Delmas ................................................................................................... 976. Towards an archaeology of globalisation: Readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological–political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th–17th centuries)Fabián Javier Ludueña Romandini ............................................................... 127Part III7. Charlevoix and the American savage: The 18th-century traveller as moralistDavid J. Culpin ................................................................................................ 1498. Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: From travel writingto Kolb’s ‘Full Description’Nigel Penn ......................................................................................................... 1719. Nothing new under the sun: Anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1880–1910Peter Merrington ............................................................................................ 195Part IV10. Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th centuryJulio Esteban Vezub ....................................................................................... 21511. To my Dear Minister: Official letters of African Wesleyan Evangelists in the late 19th-century TransvaalLize Kriel .......................................................................................................... 24312. Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: Documents and practices across spaces and social economiesMastin Prinsloo ............................................................................................. 259Part V13. The ‘painting’ of black history: The Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812)Jorge Pavez Ojeda ........................................................................................... 28314. On not spreading the Word: Ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th centuryGerald Groenewald ........................................................................................ 31715. Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American cultureJosé Emilio Burucúa ...................................................................................... 341Index ......................................................................................................................... 373

Adrien Delmas, Ph.D. (2010) in History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, is currently reseacher at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published on travel writing in the early modern world, including Les voyages de l’écrit. Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l’époque moderne, essais sur la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales (Honoré Champion, 2011).Nigel Penn, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Cape Town, is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively in early Cape colonial history including The Forgotten Frontier (University of Ohio Press, 2005).

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments ................................................................................................ viiForeword: Writing at Sea Isabel Hofmeyr ....................................................... ixContributors ............................................................................................................ xiiiIntroduction: The written word and the worldAdrien Delmas ................................................................................................... xviiPart I1. Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: The Libyco-Berber exampleJean-Loïc Le Quellec ......................................................................................... 32. From pictures to letters: The early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo’s alphabetisation process during the 16th centuryPatrick Johansson .............................................................................................. 313. Edmond R. Smith’s writing lesson: Archive and representation in 19th-century AraucaníaAndré Menard .................................................................................................... 57Part II4. Missionary knowledge in context: Geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuriesHervé Pennec ...................................................................................................... 755. From travelling to history: An outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th centuryAdrien Delmas ................................................................................................... 976. Towards an archaeology of globalisation: Readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological–political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th–17th centuries)Fabián Javier Ludueña Romandini ............................................................... 127Part III7. Charlevoix and the American savage: The 18th-century traveller as moralistDavid J. Culpin ................................................................................................ 1498. Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: From travel writingto Kolb’s ‘Full Description’Nigel Penn ......................................................................................................... 1719. Nothing new under the sun: Anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1880–1910Peter Merrington ............................................................................................ 195Part IV10. Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th centuryJulio Esteban Vezub ....................................................................................... 21511. To my Dear Minister: Official letters of African Wesleyan Evangelists in the late 19th-century TransvaalLize Kriel .......................................................................................................... 24312. Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: Documents and practices across spaces and social economiesMastin Prinsloo ............................................................................................. 259Part V13. The ‘painting’ of black history: The Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812)Jorge Pavez Ojeda ........................................................................................... 28314. On not spreading the Word: Ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th centuryGerald Groenewald ........................................................................................ 31715. Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American cultureJosé Emilio Burucúa ...................................................................................... 341Index ......................................................................................................................... 373