Photo showing Diogo de Mendonça, the Portuguese governor of Salvador who surrendered to the Dutch in 1624, with the Jesuit priest Domingo Coinia. From Steyger-P raetjen Tusschen Jan Batavier en Maetroos ober het apprehenderen van den Gouverneur ende Provinciael van gantsch Brazilien, met haer Geselschap (Amsterdam: Claes Jansz Visscher, 1624). Source: John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Photo titled Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung. Dutch] Hans Staden van Homborgs beschrijvinghe van America published in Amsterdam, approximately from 1601-1650, showing Hans Staden a German soldier who was shipwrecked in Brazil and captured by the Tupinamba in 1522. Sourced from the Jonn Carter Brown Library.
