Portuguese
The people of Portugal, as the writers name them: sailors, traders and settlers, above all in Brazil.
Brought to Ubatuba as a Captive, 1554
Hans Staden, True History and Description of a Land of Wild, Naked, Fierce Man-Eating People (Marburg, 1557), as reprinted by Karl Klüpfel (Stuttgart, 1859) · printed 1557 (events of 1554)
Wie nun der tantze ein ende hatte, ward ich dem Ipperu Wasu überliffert. Daselbst hatten sie mich in guter bewarung. Da sagte er mir, ich hette noch etlich zeit zu leben. Und sie brachten ire abgötter alle so in der hütten waren, und setzten sie umb mich her und sagten, Die hettens geweissaget, das man einen Portugaleser hette sollen fangen. Da sagte ich, die dinger haben keine macht, und können auch nicht reden, und ligen, das ich ein Portugaleser bin, sonder ich bin der Frantzosen freund verwanten einer, und das landt da ich daheime bin, heysset Allemanien.
When the dance was over, I was handed over to Ipperu Wasu, and there they kept me under close guard. He told me I still had some time to live. They brought all the idols that were in the hut, set them around me, and said these had foretold that they would capture a Portuguese. I said, "These things have no power and cannot speak. They are lying when they say I am Portuguese. I am a friend and kinsman of the French, and the land where I am at home is called Allemanien."
Food from the Great River, 1639
Cristóbal de Acuña, New Discovery of the Great River of the Amazons (Madrid, 1641), as reprinted in Madrid in 1891 · printed 1641 (journey of February to December 1639)
Las viandas que acompañan este pan, y vino, son muchas, no solo de frutas, como Plántanos, Piñas, Guayabas, Auios, Castañas muy sabrosas, que llaman en el Perú Castañas de la Sierra, y á la verdad más parecen esto, que no aquello, si bien las llaman así por nacer en vnos cocos que se asemejan al herizo de la Castaña, Tienen Palmas de diuersos géneros, que producen vnos sazonados cocos, y otras sabrosos dátiles, que aunque siluestres, son de muy buen gusto, y otras muchas diferencias de frutas, propias todas de tierras calientes. Tienen también rayces de mucho sustento, como son batatas, yuca mansa, que llaman los Portugueses, Macachera, Caras, criadillas de tierra, y otras que asadas, ó cocidas, no solo son tan gustosas, sino sustanciales.
Many foods go with this bread and wine. There are fruits such as plantains, pineapples, guavas, auios, and very tasty chestnuts that in Peru they call "chestnuts of the Sierra." They do look more like chestnuts than anything else, though the name comes from the husks they grow in, which look like the burr of a chestnut. They have palms of many kinds. Some bear ripe coconuts and others tasty dates, which are very good even though they grow wild. There are many other kinds of fruit, all of them proper to hot countries. They also have very nourishing roots. There are sweet potatoes, sweet yuca, which the Portuguese call macachera, caras, and earth truffles. Others are not only tasty when roasted or boiled but filling.