 | Robert Sewell - 1900 - 510 pages
...in battle— a description which agrees with that of Nikitin and Paes. "The common people go quite naked, with the exception of a piece of cloth about their middle. The king wears a cap of gold brocade two spans long. ... His horse is worth more than some of our cities... | |
 | William Harrison Moreland - 1920 - 370 pages
...cover only their privities," while as regards Vijayanagar he states that " the common people go quite naked, with the exception of a piece of cloth about their middle." Fitch writes that at Golconda " the men and the women do go with a cloth bound about their middles... | |
 | G.A. Natesan - 1928 - 1036 pages
...to be short, compared to our present fashion we may take it that the common people were going "quite naked with the exception of a piece of cloth about their middle". SUMMARY The picture of economic life of the people of India at the beginning of the seventeenth century... | |
 | Lodovico de Varthema - 1997 - 218 pages
...cloth of gold and silk in the Moorish fashion, but nothing on the feet. The common people go quite naked, with the exception of a piece of cloth about their middle. The king wears a cap of gold brocade two spans long, and when he goes to war he wears a quilted dress... | |
 | Joan-Pau Rubiés - 2002 - 476 pages
...short shirt and a turban 'in the moorish fashion', and common people (populo minuto), who go quite naked, with the exception of a piece of cloth about their middle (women are not described here, although they appear in the chapter on Calicut). As opposed to ordinary... | |
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The common people go quite naked, with the exception of a piece of cloth about their middle. 