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Through this multi-volume book, the author has tried to portray a true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manners, habits economies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. It is also likewise the most remarkable war like exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements between the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffic and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, etc., of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. It is also a most circumstantial and complete account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans etc. It is taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentic manuscripts with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. This multi-volume discourse is translated from the high-Dutch printed at Amsterdam in 1672.
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ISBN : 9788121246330
Pages : 440
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