Jeronimo Lobo (1593–1678) was a Jesuit missionary from Lisbon who entered the Society of Jesus as a teenager. While on mission to India in the 1620s, he decided to travel to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) with hopes of converting and protecting the people there, whose emperor had already become Catholic. He recorded his journeys, and his writings are worthy of an adventure novel. By the time his travels were over, Lobo had been marooned, captured by pirates, imprisoned by Turks, ransomed and had even seen a unicorn. Below is an excerpt from his account of his time on the Red Sea, […]
