Keywords: Shipwrecked Portuguese sailors battling giant crabs in the Indian Ocean.jpg en Like the giant gold-digging ants Herodotus described in the fifth century BC or this 16th-century depiction of shipwrecked Portuguese sailors battling giant crabs in the Indian Ocean the fantastic the strange and the astonishing have always been ascribed to whatever lands were little-known and distant For Europeans this was the East CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BRY INDIA ORIENTALIS IV 1601 1601 http //www saudiaramcoworld com/issue/200504/the leek-green sea htm author PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Ships of Portugal Theodor de Bry |