Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies: Volume 1

The First Book, Containing his Description of the East

Cambridge University Press

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of the East Indian travels of John Huyghen van Linschoten, originally published in the Netherlands in 1596 and translated into English in 1598, was published by the society in 1885 using an edited version of the early translation, supplemented with explanatory notes. It provides a rich source of information about Portuguese trade with the East Indies, as well as descriptions of the fauna, flora and indigenous peoples of the regions he visited, from the Azores and St Helena to Java and Sumatra.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Linschoten, John Huyghen van

Burnell, Arthur Coke

Weitere Mitwirkende

Phillip, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhalt

Prefatory note; Introduction; 1. The author's desire to travel; 2. The beginning of my voyage into the East of Portingall Indies; 3. The manner and order used in the ships in their Indian voyages; 4. The description of Mossambique; 5. The description of the coast of Arabia felix, or the red Sea, to the iland and fortress of Ormus; 6. Of the iland and towne of Ormus; 7. Of the coast of Ormus, to the towne and iland named Diu; 8. Of the towne, fortresse and island of Diu; 9. Of the kingdome and land of Cambaia; 10. Of the coast of India; 11. Of the coast of India, that is from Goa to the Cape de Comoriin; 12. The description of the kings, the division of the land and coast of Malabar; 13. Of the islands called Maldyva; 14. Of the iland of Seylon; 15. Of the coast of Choramandel; 16. Of the kingdom of Bengalen, and the river Ganges; 17. Of the coasts and lands of Aracan, Pegu and Sian; 18. Of the towne and fort of Malacca; 19. Of the iland of Sumatra; 20. Of the iland of Java Major; 21. Of the ilands of Maluco; 22. From the Cape Singapura to the towne of Sian; 23. Of the great fruitfull kingdom of China; 24. Of the provinces, townes, and other things in the kingdome of China; 25. Of the town and iland of Machau; 26. Of the iland of Japan; 27. A short relation of the land lying behind Goa; 28. Of the towne and iland of Goa; 29. Of the customs of the Portingales, and such as are issued from them; 30. Of the Portingalles and Mestiços; 31. Of the maner and customes of Portingale and Mestiços women in India; 32. Of the viceroy of Portingall; 33. Of the heathens, Indians, and other strangers dwelling in Goa; 34. Of the times of the yeare in India; 35. Of the money, waight and measure of India and Goa; 36. Of the Indians called Bramenes; 37. Of the Gusurates and Banianes of Cambaia; 38. Of the Canaras and Decanijns; 39. Of the Canarijns and Corumbijns of India; 40. Of the Arabians and Abexiins dwelling in India; 41. Of the black people of Mosambique; 42. Of the Malabares and Nayros in India; 43. Of the Moores and Jews in India; 44. Of the pagodes and Indian idols; 45. Of all the kinds of beastes, cattell, and foules in India.