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Author Barbosa, Duarte, -1521.

Title The book of Duarte Barbosa, an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants / written by Duarte Barbosa, and completed about the year 1518 A.D. : including the coasts of Malabar, Eastern India, further India, China, and the Indian Archipelago ; edited by Mansel Longworth Dames.

Publication Info. Farnham, England : Ashgate, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 286, xli pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 49
The book of Duarte Barbosa ; v. 2
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 49.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; PORTRAIT OF THE LATE MANAVIKRAMA RAJA ZAMORIN OF CALICUT, IN MOURNING COSTUME; CONTENTS OF VOLUME II; MAPS; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS NOT INCLUDED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VOLUME I; INTRODUCTION TO VOL. II; TEXT; 87. HERE BEGINNETH THE LAND OF MALABAR; AND THE ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM OF CALECUT; 88. KINGDOM OF CANANOR; 89. THE KINGDOM OF CALECUT; 90. THE KINGDOM OF COCHIN; 91. THE KINGDOM OF COILAM; 92. CAPE OF CUMERI; 93. THE ISLES OF MALDIO; 94. THE ISLES OF PALANDURA; 95. THE ISLAND OF CEILAM; 96. QUILICARE; 97. THE CITY OF GAEL; 98. CHARAMANDEL; 99. MAILAPUR; 100. THE CITY OF PALEACATE.
101. kingdom of otisa102. the kingdom of bengala; 103. kingdom of berma; 104. kingdom of aracangil; 105. kingdom of peeguu; 106. martabam; 107. the city and kingdom of ava; 108. capelam; 109. the kingdom of anseam; 110. the city and realm of malaga; 111. archipelago of malaga; 112. the isles of nacabar; 113. the very great island of qamatra; 114. cunda; 115. kingdom of jaoa; 116. jaoa the less; 117. the island of timor; 118. the isles of bandam; 119. ambam; 120. maluquo; 121. the island of celebe; 122. the island of bangaya; 123. solor; 124. isles of borneo; 125. champa.
126. THE VERY GREAT KINGDOM OF CHINA127. LEQUEOS; SUPPLEMENT ON PRECIOUS STONES AND SPICES. NOT PORTUGUESE TEXT. TAKEN FROM RAMUSIO AND SPANISH VERSION; RUBIES; CEYLON RUBIES; SPINEL RUBIES; BALACH RUBIES; DIAMONDS OF THE OLD MiNE; SAPPHIRES; TOPAZES; TURQUOISES; JACINTHS; EMERALDS; THE DIVERS KINDS OF SPICES, WHERE THEY GROW, WHAT THEY ARE WORTH AT CALICUT, AND WHITHER THEY ARE CARRIED; PEPPER; CLOVES; CINNAMON; BELEDI GiNGER; DELY GINGER; CONSERVE OF GREEN GINGER; OF DRUGS AND OF THEIR PRICES AT CALICUT AND IN THE LAND OF MALABAR; FURTHER NOTES AND EMENDATIONS TO VOL. I; ERRATA, VOL. I.
Appendix i. extracts from the ""decadas"" of joao de barrosi. account of malabar. dec 1, book ix, ch. 3. f. 180 v. ; ii. extract from geographical chapter. dec. 1, book ix, ch. 1, f. 176 v. ; iii. extracts from the description of the kingdom of bengal. dec. iv, book ix, ch. 1.; iv. first expedition to bengal, dec. iii, book ii, ch. 6, f. 41, 42.; appendix ii; (a) account of the coronation ceremony of the zamorins, by the late manavikrama raja, zamorin of callicut. note on above account by mr. j. a. thorne; (b) note by mr. j. a. thorne on the funeral ceremonies of the zamorin.
(C) note on royal titles in malabar by mr. j. a. thorneindex; a; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; x; y; z; i. lavanha's map of bengal from decade iv of the decades da asia of j. de barros, madrid, 1615; ii. lavanha's map of java from decades da asia of j. de barros, madrid, 1615.
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Subject Africa, East -- Description and travel.
Africa, East.
Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel.
Arabian Peninsula.
Iran -- Description and travel.
Iran.
India -- Description and travel.
India.
Malabar Coast (India) -- Description and travel.
Malay Archipelago -- Description and travel.
China -- Description and travel.
China.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dames, Mansel Longworth, 1850-1922.
Other Form: Print version: Dames, Mansel Longworth. Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2011 9781409414162
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1409416550 (electronic book)
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