'Not unlike mermaids': A report about the human and natural history of Southeast Africa from 1690
In 1690, on the orders of Simon van der Stel, officials of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) interviewed one Nicolao Almede, a 'free black man of Mozambique' who had recently arrived at the Cape as a sailor aboard the English ship John and Mary. Almede informed his interlocutors a...
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University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902015000100003&lng=en&tlng=en |