421920.pdf

• Language: ger; lat; ita
• Published: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2012

For several months of 1644, monsoon winds held the Pole Michael Boym, the great China missionary, in Mozambique off the coast of southeastern Africa. His report, published here for the first time, about the "Country of the Kaffirs" represents not only an important source for the local hist...