The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617: Describing His Experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay ArchipelagoAsian Educational Services, 1991 - 394 pages Describing His Experiences In Arabia, India And The Malay Archipelago. |
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Page 375 - Society. (The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, AD 1503 to 1508. Translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, with a Preface by John Winter Jones, Esq., FSA, and edited, with notes and an Introduction, by George Percy Badger, late Government Chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.
Page 383 - Together with the manner of trading with those people, aswell by vs English, as by the Hollanders : as also what hath happened to the English Nation at Bantan in the East Indies, since the 2. of February 1602.
Page 376 - TRUE AND ALMOST INCREDIBLE REPORT OF AN ENGLISHMAN, that (being cast away in the good Ship called the Assention, in Cambaya, the farthest part of the East Indies) Travelled by Land through many unknowne Kingdomes, and great Cities.