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Hans Staden
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Here
we continue to publish on Brazilkids a summary on Hans Staden Adventures,
based on the text of brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato. Original
text is published in Brazil by Braziliense
Publishing House.
PART 3
Staden
tells about the ending of his first travel to Brazil, after 108
days at the sea.
Leaving
the Olinda Port , called by indians "Marim", or "village".
the ships went until another indians tribe land, called "potiguaras",
that today corresponds to the Paraíba brazilian state. Over
there was something that interested sailors: brazil-wood, wood that
indians dealt and that gave the new land name: Brazil.
When coming close itself to the port, Captain Penteado ship found
a French ship. In accordance with the King orders, he attacked it,
hopin to capture it. But the attack was failed, because the french
ship reacted and shot a cannon bullet on the main ship oven, killing
some sailors. Captain Penteado gave up of the attack and decided
to come back to Portugal.
The back to Portugal was terrible. As it had not been able to join
provisionses on Paraíba, the food started to lack. The crew
had until to eat a leather shipment of cabrito that the ship took.
On the end, each crew member was receiveing only one water cup dágua
and a flour piece.
This horror lasted one hundred and eight days, until they had reached
the Açores Islands, that were from to the Portucale King.
One day, when they were fishing, appeared far a suspicious boat.
Sailors ran over there, to see if it was an enemy or a friend. It
was a enemy and Portuguese had flied up over it. The ship could
not resist the attack. Their crew ran away for land and Penteado
took the ship.
They were very luck, because in the ship bilges there was so much
food and wine that Portuguese has eaten and drunk for all that had
lacked….
- What a good life! - Pedrinho said. - It´s exactly as granma
says: humanity story is a piracy without end...
- It´s the wolf and the lamb tale -remembered Narizinho.
- What Lamb! - the boy protested. It is the tale of the strong wolf
and the weak wolf, one that me walks for the head...
Dona Benta said: - Yes, this tale was not written yet by Esopo nor
La Fontaine, but it should be number one tale, because it is the
one that is more frequently in life.
Finished the speech on tales, Dona Benta continued:
- Portuguese then had continued and then had found with other ships
in the path. When they had arrived to Lisbon, after sixteen months
in the sea, were one hundred together ships.
In Lisbon Staden has relaxed some time, just the necessary one to
forget the first trip horrors and to feel the desire to undertake
a second travel. His dreams were now the same of all adventurers
at that time: to join gold, that was said to be foundee into mounts
in the new world, under the lands mouth
- But it was real, granma?
- At that time, it was. Deposits on land and on river gravels showed
gold in a wonderful way. What Portuguese and Spanish had taken off
of America does not have account... They had been thousand and thousand
of kilos...
- But why then they had not turned the richest countries into the
world? - Pedrinho asked.
- Because they had not known how to keep it - answered Dona Benta.
It wasn't not a question to earn, but it was necessary to conserve
it, which is a much more difficult thing. All the gold that Portugal
took off of Brazil was passed step by step for the industry countries,
mainly England, in exchange for their industrial products. When
Portuguese had opened their eyes, it was late. Brazil gold was all
in hands of smarter people...
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