A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Anonymous

OF BANDAN.

       DANDON. [334]

       ISLANDS OF MALUCO, WHICH ARE FIVE.

       ISLAND OF CELEBE. [338]

       BANGAYA. [341]

       SOLOR.

       BORNEY.

       CHAMPA.

       CHINA.

       LEQUEOS.

       FINIS.

       ACCOUNT OF THE RUBIES, WHERE THEY GROW, OF THEIR VARIETY, AND OF HOW THEY ARE SOLD IN THE MALABAR COUNTRY.

       ACCOUNT OF THE SPINEL RUBIES.

       ACCOUNT OF OTHER RUBIES OF CEYLON.

       ACCOUNT OF THE BALASSES, WHERE THEY GROW AND WHAT THEY ARE WORTH IN CALICUT.

       ACCOUNT OF THE DIAMONDS OF THE OLD MINE.

       ACCOUNT OF THE SAPPHIRES.

       ACCOUNT OF THE TOPAZES AND OF THEIR PRICES IN CALICUT.

       ACCOUNT OF THE TURQUOISES, AND OF THEIR PRICES IN MALABAR.

       ACCOUNT OF THE HYACINTHS.

       ACCOUNT OF THE EMERALDS.

       SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE SPICES, WHERE THEY GROW, AND WHAT THEY ARE WORTH IN CALICUT, AND WHERE THEY ARE EXPORTED TO.

       ACCOUNT OF THE CLOVES.

       CINNAMON.

       BELEDYN GINGER.

       ELY GINGER.

       GREEN GINGER FOR CONSERVES.

       ACCOUNT OF THE DRUGS AND SPICES IN CALICUT AND ALL THE MALABAR COUNTRY.

       ACCOUNT OF THE WEIGHTS OF PORTUGAL AND OF THE INDIES .

       IN PORTUGAL.

       INDIES.

       VOYAGE WHICH JUAN SERANO MADE WHEN HE FLED FROM MALACA, WITH THREE PORTUGUESE AND CRISTOVAL DE MORALES OF SEVILLE, IN A CARAVEL WHICH HE STOLE IN MALACA, IN WHICH HE PUT CERTAIN MALAY MARINERS, NATIVES OF MALACA, ABOUT THE YEAR OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE YEARS. [387]

       NOTE TO DESCRIPTION OF PRECIOUS STONES.

       NOTE TO PAGE 30 .

       NOTE TO PAGE 35 .

       NOTE TO PAGE 93 .

       INDEX.

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"Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar."

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      This volume was published by the Hakluyt Society as the work of Duarte Barbosa on the authority of Ramusio, for neither the three Spanish MSS. of Barcelona and Munich, nor the Portuguese MS., give his name; it is probable that Barbosa contributed a largo part of it, for Damian de Goes refers his readers for an account of Malabar and its religion and customs to a book by Duarte Barbosa, who is stated to have spoken the language