The Travels of the Abbé Carré in India and the Near East 1672 to 1674 [ From France through Syria Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Surat Goa and Bijapur with an Account of his Grave Illness

"1 END OF CARRE'S AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO COLBERT Reduced from the original in Paris"Translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by LADY FAWCETT and edited by SIR CHARLES FAWCETT with the assistance of SIR RICHARD BURN THE TRAVELS OF THE ABBÈ CARRE IN INDIA AND THE NEAR EAST 1672 TO 1674 IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME ONE From France through Syria Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Sur [...] and the executors of the late Sir Aurel Stein for permission to make the inset in our map of the Persian Gulf referred to in n. I on p. To4 of this volume; as well as to the Librairie Plon at Paris for allowing us in the second volume to adapt their reproduction of Caron s map of 1672 showing the viiviii PREPACK French occupation of the Bay of Trincomalee. [...] And finally we wish to express our tlinIc% to the Secretary of State for India (the owner of the copyright in the Abbe's Journal) for the loan of the manuscript and permission to publish this work as well as to the translator for having laid the foundation for it in such a readable form. [...] Paternoster Row London in 18204 though a catalogue of his in 1779 which is in the Bodleian Library shows that he dealt also in manuscripts and the words 'Several gentlemen to whom I have had the honor to shew this work' in the letter of 8 October rather point to the writer being someone below the status of a 'gentleman'. [...] The last part of this with his signature is reproduced in the frontispiece of this volume and a comparison of it with the sample of the text of the Journal leaves no doubt that they are by the same hand.