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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of the East Indian travels of John Huyghen van Linschoten, originally published in the Netherlands in 1596 and translated into English in 1598, was published by the society in 1885 using an edited version of the early translation, supplemented with explanatory notes. It provides a rich source of information about Portuguese trade with the East Indies, as well as descriptions of the fauna, flora and indigenous peoples of the regions he visited, from the Azores and St Helena to Java and Sumatra.

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Author:   John Huyghen van Linschoten ,  P. A. Tiele ,  William Phillip
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9780511697227

ISBN 10:   0511697228
Publication Date:   05 March 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

46. Of the elephant; 47. Of the abadas or rhinoceros; 48. Of the fishes and other beasts in the sea of India; 49. Of all fruits, trees, plants, and common hearbs in India; 50. Of iaqua, or iaacca; 51. Of mangas; 52. Of cajous; 53. Of jambos; 54. Of other fruites in India; 55. Of the Indian figges; 56. Of the palm tree; 57. Of the duryoens, a fruit of Malacca; 58. Of the tree arbor de rays and the bambus; 59. Of the tree called arbor triste; 60. Of the bettele leaves and the fruit arecca; 61. Of the herbe dutroa; 62. Of spices, drugges, plants, and stuffes for physitions; 63. Of cinamon; 64. Of ginger; 65. Of cloves; 66. Of mace, folie, or flowers of nutmegges; 67. Of cardamomum; 68. Of lacke, or hard wax; 69. Of annil or indigo; 70. Of benioin; 72. Of frankincense and mirre; 73. Of manna and rhubarbe; 74. Of the wood called sanders; 75. Of palo de cobra, or snakewood; 76. Of the wood calamba, or lignum aloes; 77. Of the root China; 78. Of amfion, alias opium; 79. Of bangue; 80. Of camphora; 81. Of Tamarinio; 82. Of Mirabolanes; 83. Of other spice and hearbes in India; 84. Of all sorts of pearles; 85. Of diamonds; 86. Of rubies, espinelles, granades, emeralds, and other precious stones; 87. Of the bezar stones; 88. A briefe instruction how to know and find out the right diamantes, rubies, emeralds, perals, and other precious stones; 89. Of rubies; 90. Of the oriental and old emeralds; 91. Of oriental pearles; 92. Of certaine memorable things, passed in India during my residence there; 93. Of my voyage and departure from India to Portingale; 94. A briefe description of the iland Saint Helena; 95. Of the iland called the Ascention; 96. A briefe description of the islands of Canaria; 97. Of the description of the islands of Acores; 98. Of the ilands of Corvo and Flores; 99. Of certain notable and memorable accidents that happened during my continuance in Tercera.

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