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Early Travels in India 1583-1619

1921

South of Ahmadnagar was a third Muhammadan kingdom that of Bijäpur ; while the rest of the peninsula was still under the rule of petty Hindu princes the chief of whom was the RAja of Chandragiri who represented the once powerful dynasty of Vijayanagar. [...] The only European nation holding any territorial possessions in India at the time was the Portuguese whose regular dominions comprised merely the district round Goa and a few other ports on the western coast though Some of their copatriots had established themselves in a position more or less independent at various places on the other side of the peninsula and in the delta of the Ganges. [...] This was not the case with our own countrymen and the story of the successful endeavours of the English to establish their right to trade with India notwithstanding the opposition of the Portuguese forms the underplot of the present volume. [...] The first citie of India that we arrived at upon the fift of November after we had passed the coast of Zindi [Sind] is called Diu which standeth in an iland in the kingdome of Cambaia and is the strongest towne that the Portugales have in those partes. [...] Their houses are of stone very faire and higl From hence wee went for Gulconda the king whereof is calk Cutup de lashaeh.1 Here and in the kingdome of Hidalcai and in the countrey of the king of Decan [Ahmadnagar] the diamants found of the olde water.
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Pages
374
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143750
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
Preface
vii-xii William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
Fuller Titles of Chief Authorities Quoted
xiii-xiv William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1583-91 Ralph Fitch
1-47 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1599-1606 John Mildenhall
48-59 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1608-13 William Hawkins
60-121 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1608-11 William Finch
122-187 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1612-16 Nicholas Withington
188-233 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1612-17 Thomas Coryat
234-287 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
1616-19 Edward Terry
288-332 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view
Index
333-351 William Foster, Eleanor Aveling view

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