Works, Volume 49Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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... Land who wish to be called Kings , which they are not , for they neither coin money , nor roof houses with tiles , 1 nor indeed in all Malabar can anyone roof them so , howso- ever great a Lord he may be , for forthwith the Moors would ...
... Land who wish to be called Kings , which they are not , for they neither coin money , nor roof houses with tiles , 1 nor indeed in all Malabar can anyone roof them so , howso- ever great a Lord he may be , for forthwith the Moors would ...
Page 60
... land . They are quarrymen as well , and earn their living by work of all kinds . Some learn the use of arms and fight well when they undertake it . They carry in their hands as tokens , sticks a fathom long . The more part of them are ...
... land . They are quarrymen as well , and earn their living by work of all kinds . Some learn the use of arms and fight well when they undertake it . They carry in their hands as tokens , sticks a fathom long . The more part of them are ...
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... land on condition that the King would give him a piece of land whereon he might build a church in honour of the Lord who had sent him thither . Whereat the King laughed and said that if he with all his might could not make it stir how ...
... land on condition that the King would give him a piece of land whereon he might build a church in honour of the Lord who had sent him thither . Whereat the King laughed and said that if he with all his might could not make it stir how ...
Contents
Here BEGINNETH THE LAND OF MALABAR | 1 |
KINGDOM of CananoR | 79 |
90 THE KINGDOM OF COCHIN | 92 |
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Alboquerque Ali Raja alluded Arab Archipelago bahar Banda Barbosa Barros Bengal Borneo Bramenes Calicut called Cambaya camphor Cananor Castanheda caste Cathay ceremony Ceylon Champa China Chinese Chittagong cinnamon cloths cloves coast Cochin colour Correa Coulam custom Dalgado derived doubt Duarte Barbosa East elephants fanams farazola Fernão Ferrand Francisco Serrão Ganges given gives Glossario gold Hobson-Jobson India island Jaoa Java King Kingdom known Kovilagam land leagues Linschoten Lord Malabar Malaca Malay Malayalam Maluco Marco Polo Martaban mentioned merchants Moorish Moors and Heathen Muhammadan Narsyngua Nayar Nayres Orta palace passage Pegu pepper port Portuguese Portuguese text probably Pulicat quilates Raja Ramusio river Rockhill rubies sail says ships Siam sixteenth century Spanish version speaks stones Sumatra sword temple Ternate thereof thither Tidor town trade voyage women word worth Yule and Cordier Zamorin