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... century , returning to Venice in 1444 , is probably the first traveller in point of time who has left any record of these customs . His account as given in India in the Fifteenth Century ( II , p . 20 ) , is as follows : - " In this ...
... century , returning to Venice in 1444 , is probably the first traveller in point of time who has left any record of these customs . His account as given in India in the Fifteenth Century ( II , p . 20 ) , is as follows : - " In this ...
Page 115
... century B.C. Ceylon had the reputation of producing gems ( McCrindle's Ancient India , Ptolemy , pp . 247 and 251 ; Pliny's Natural History , Bostock and Riley's trans . , Bohn 1855 , pp . 51 , 52 ) . Ptolemy also mentions beryls and ...
... century B.C. Ceylon had the reputation of producing gems ( McCrindle's Ancient India , Ptolemy , pp . 247 and 251 ; Pliny's Natural History , Bostock and Riley's trans . , Bohn 1855 , pp . 51 , 52 ) . Ptolemy also mentions beryls and ...
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... century it included all the islands facing China from Formosa to Japan , and specially referred to Formosa itself . The Arab writer Ibn Majid ( second half of , fifteenth century ) and Sulayman al Mahri ( first half of sixteenth century ) ...
... century it included all the islands facing China from Formosa to Japan , and specially referred to Formosa itself . The Arab writer Ibn Majid ( second half of , fifteenth century ) and Sulayman al Mahri ( first half of sixteenth century ) ...
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Here BEGINNETH THE LAND OF MALABAR | 1 |
KINGDOM of CananoR | 79 |
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