"Brasil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... occasions has performed very surprising things. He was born at Groninghen in the United Provinces. His own name not being known, his companions gave him that of Roche Brasiliano, by reason of his long residence in Brasil: hence he was forced to fly, when the Portuguese retook those countries from the Dutch, several nations then inhabiting at Brasil (as English, French, Dutch, and others), being constrained to seek ...
— The Pirates of Panama • A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin |
