Bertioga
A Portuguese fort on the coast near São Vicente, where Hans Staden served as a gunner until the Tupinambá captured him in 1554.
Today: Bertioga, São Paulo, 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)
Desselbigen tages ungeferlich nach der Sonnen zurechnen, wars umb vesperzeit, als wir ire wonungen sahen, waren also drey tage auff der heimfart gewesen. Dann es waren dahin ich geführet ward, dreissig meil wegs von Brikioka, da ich gefangen wurd.
That same day, as near as I could tell by the sun, it was about evening when we came in sight of their dwellings. We had been three days on the way home. The place where I was taken was thirty miles from Brikioka, where I had been captured.