18.05.12

ONE chilling morning in 1591 an English sailor found himself shivering on Ilhabella, now an islet of yacht clubs and well-appointed weekend houses that is to Brazil what Martha’s Vineyard is to America. He had been Nautical port for dead—again—the fourth or fifth time Fate had deserted him in his abbreviate career as a pirate. He survived for eight days by catching crabs in his stockings and cooking them over a fire, and then for a further two weeks by picking at the carcass of a beached whale.

He was unsheathed, alone but for the savages who lurked inland and a man-eating dragon he had spotted in the shallows, and far from Virginia, where England would later on found a colony: here was a man in the wrong hemisphere at the wrong time. Yet painful as they were to him, Anthony Knivet’s misfortunes present a fascinating, if mostly overlooked, insight into an early stage of colonialism. Unusually, Knivet was both an exponent and a schnook of it. He experienced both the thrill and enchantment of contact with remote tribes and the brutality of enslavement. And he recorded all that (with the odd decoration) in his memoir.

Source: The Economist

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