The True History of his Captivity 1st Edition by Hans Staden,Malcolm Letts ISBN 041534476X 978-0415344760

Table of contents: 

INTRODUCTION
NOTE TO INTRODUCTION
HANS STADEN’S INTRODUCTION
DR. DRYANDER’S INTRODUCTION
THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK

PART ONE

• Chapter I: The voyage to Portugal
• Chapter II: My first voyage from Lisbon in Portugal
• Chapter III: How The savages of the place called Prannenbucke (Pernambuco) rebelled
• Chapter IV: The nature of our defences and how they fought against us
• Chapter V: How we sailed away from Prannenbucke (Pernambuco) to a country called Buttugaris
• Chapter VI: My next voyage from Seville in Spain to America
• Chapter VII: In what manner we reached America in latitude twenty-eight degrees without finding the harbour
• Chapter VIII: In what manner we left the harbour to seek the country for which we were bound
• Chapter IX: How certain among us set off in a boat to inspect the harbour, and how we found a crucifix standing on a rock
• Chapter X: In what manner I was dispatched with a boat full of savages to our ship
• Chapter XI: How the other ship arrived, in which was the chief pilot
• Chapter XII: How we took counsel and sailed for the Portuguese colony of Sancte Vincente
• Chapter XIII: How we learned in what savage country we had been shipwrecked
• Chapter XIV: The situation of Sancte Vincente
• Chapter XV: How the place is named in which the enemy is chiefly gathered together
• Chapter XVI: In what manner the Portuguese rebuilt Brikioka
• Chapter XVII: How and for what reasons it was necessary to keep watch for the enemy
• Chapter XIX: How my people came out when the savages were carrying me away
• Chapter XX: In what manner my captors returned to their own country
• Chapter XXI: How they dealt with me on the day they brought me to their dwellings
• Chapter XXII: How my two captors came to me and told me that they had presented me to one of their friends
• Chapter XXIII: How they danced with me before the huts in which their idols Tammerka had been set up
• Chapter XXIV: How they brought me home to Ipperu Wasu who was to kill me
• Chapter XXV: How my captors made angry complaint that the Portuguese had slain their father
• Chapter XXVI: How a Frenchman who had been left among the savages came to see me
• Chapter XXVII: How I suffered greatly from toothache
• Chapter XXIX: How the Tuppin Ikins came with twenty-five canoes
• Chapter XXXI: How the Tuppin Ikins burnt another village called Mambukabe
• Chapter XXXII: How a ship came from Brikioka enquiring for me
• Chapter XXXIII: How the brother of king Jeppipo Wasu returned from Mambukale
• Chapter XXXIV: In what manner the sick king Jeppipo Wasu returned home
• Chapter XXXV: How the Frenchman returned who had told the savages to eat me
• Chapter XXXVI: Of the manner in which the savages ate a prisoner and carried me to the feast
• Chapter XXXVII: What happened on the homeward journey after the man had been eaten
• Chapter XXXVIII: How once more a ship was sent after me by the Portuguese
• Chapter XXXIX: How a slave, who had perpetually defamed me and desired to have me killed, was himself killed and eaten in my presence
• Chapter XL: How a French arrived to trade with the savages for cotton and Brazil-wood
• Chapter XLI: How the savages went forth to war taking me with them and what befell me on the way
• Chapter XLII: How the prisoners were disposed of on the return voyage
• Chapter XLIII: How they danced in the camp on the following day with their enemies
• Chapter XLIV: How the French ship, to which the savages had promised to bring me, was still there
• Chapter XLVI: How Almighty God worked a wonder
• Chapter XLVII: How I went fishing one evening with two savages, and God worked another wonder with rain and storm
• Chapter XLVIII: How the savages ate the second roasted Christian, called Hieronymus
• Chapter XLIX: How they carried me to be given away
• Chapter LI: How shortly after I had been given away, another ship arrived from France
• Chapter LII: The name of the ship’s captain, from whence the ship came, and what happened before we left harbour
• Chapter LIII: How at Dieppe I was taken to the House of the captain of the ship Bellete

HANS STADEN’S PRAYER

• My prayer to the Lord God when I was in the hands of the savages who threatened to eat me

PART TWO

• Chapter I: The manner of the voyage from Portugal to Rio de Janeiro in America
• Chapter III: Concerning a great range of mountains which is in the Country
• Chapter IV: Concerning the dwellings of the Tuppin Inba, whose prisoner I was
• Chapter V: In what manner they make fire
• Chapter VII: Of their skill in shooting beasts and fish with arrows
• Chapter VIII: Of the appearance of the people
• Chapter X: Concerning their bread and the names of their fruit
• Chapter XI: How they prepare their food
• Chapter XII: Concerning their government by chiefs, and their laws
• Chapter XIV: How they concoct their drinks and make themselves drunk therewith
• Chapter XV: Of the manner in which the men adorn and paint themselves
• Chapter XVI: Concerning the adornment of the women
• Chapter XVII: How they first name a child
• Chapter XIX: Of their betrothals
• Chapter XX: Of their possessions
• Chapter XXIII: How they turn the women into soothsayers
• Chapter XXIV: Concerning their canoes
• Chapter XXVI: Of their plan of campaign when they set out to invade their enemy’s country
• Chapter XXVII: Concerning their weapons
• Chapter XXVIII: Of their manner of killing and eating their enemies
• Chapter XXIX: Concerning certain animals in the country
• Chapter XXX: Certain animals
• Chapter XXXI: Concerning a small insect, like a flea, which the natives call Attun
• Chapter XXXIV: Concerning the birds of the country
• Chapter XXXVI: Concerning the growth of the cotton plant, and the Brazilian pepper plant