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Pinto, Fernão Mendes

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Pinto, Fernão Mendes (fĕrnouN` mĕn`dĕsh pēn`t), c.1509–1583, Portuguese traveler. For some 20 years he traveled in Africa and Asia, journeying to far places and experiencing great hardships, including years as a slave. His account, Peregrinação [wanderings] (1614), is one of the most colorful narratives of world travel literature. Its truthfulness has been questioned, but there is now general agreement that the story is merely exaggerated.

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See M. Collis, The Grand Peregrination (1949).
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