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Page 18
... head , yet all this while standing , looses the wonder in my imperfect relation , but to behold is truly strange : the like for their dancing and tumbling , which doth as farre in activity exceed our mercenary skip - jacks1 as the rope ...
... head , yet all this while standing , looses the wonder in my imperfect relation , but to behold is truly strange : the like for their dancing and tumbling , which doth as farre in activity exceed our mercenary skip - jacks1 as the rope ...
Page 72
... head , or arm , or in the hair ; men of this caste are buried in a sitting posture , and other castes which tie the same stone on the head are buried in the same way . If a wife does not jump into the fire when her husband dies , she ...
... head , or arm , or in the hair ; men of this caste are buried in a sitting posture , and other castes which tie the same stone on the head are buried in the same way . If a wife does not jump into the fire when her husband dies , she ...
Page 73
... head , which is handsomely adorned with jewels and flowers ; some have the head buried in the earth with the body above ground ; others appear to be impaled ; and many other extraordinary postures [ are adopted ] . They remain thus ...
... head , which is handsomely adorned with jewels and flowers ; some have the head buried in the earth with the body above ground ; others appear to be impaled ; and many other extraordinary postures [ are adopted ] . They remain thus ...
Contents
Introduction page | xiii |
METHWOLDS RELATION I | 2 |
SCHORERS RELATION | 51 |
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Ahmadnagar Akbar amongst anonymous Relation Arakan Arrecan bahār Bantam Bay of Bengal Bengal Bowrey Bramene Broeke's calico called caste Ceylon chay-root chief coins colour commercial Coromandel Coast denote District Manual Dutch Dutch Company Dutch Relations English Factories export fanam Gentus given Godavari Golconda gold Governor Gujarāt hath Hindu Hobson-Jobson Holland pounds Impl India indigo inhabitants Java King Kistna Kistna District letter Madras Masulipatam maund mentioned merchants Methwold miles misprint Mogul Mogul Empire Moslems Narasapur Negapatam Nellore District nevel Nizāmpatam original Orissa pagodas patam Pegu period Persian Pilgrimes Portuguese Pulicat Purchas Ravesteyn records reference religion rice river sail Schorer seaport severall ships sixteenth century sometimes Sumatra Surat Tegnapatam Telugu Terpstra thence Thomé town trade tribe unto usually various Vijayanagar volume voyage Wemmer Wesick whence whereof WILLIAM METHWOLD word writer yeeres