A New Account of the East Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander HamiltonLittle is known of Captain Alexander Hamilton other than what he tells us in this work, first published in 1727. Written during his retirement, it is both an invaluable source of information on south-east Asia at the time and a lively travelogue of Hamilton's adventurous seafaring life in the service of the East India Company and independently between 1688 and 1723. An engaging storyteller, Hamilton writes of encounters with pirates, the Portuguese, and of a poisoning in Malacca, as well as providing vivid descriptions of the countries he visited - from Africa to Japan via India, Sumatra and China - and their social customs, religions, trade and commerce. His idiosyncratic maps and illustrations enhance his narrative despite his admission that he makes 'but little use of the pencil'. Volume 1 takes the reader up the east coast of Africa to the Middle East, and round the coast of India to Ceylon. |
Contents
Gives a Defcription of the Immaum of | 40 |
CHAP VI | 53 |
Gives a Defcription of the Seacoaft of Perfia | 89 |
Is a Continuation of Obfervations on the | 100 |
Treats of the Moguls Dominions on the | 114 |
Gives an Account of the Cities of Cambay | 142 |
CHAP XIV | 156 |
Treats of the Cities and Towns on the Seacoaft | 177 |
Gives an Account of what is remarkable | 238 |
CHAP XXII | 258 |
Gives a Defcription of Canara ſhewing | 275 |
CHAP XXV | 305 |
CHAP XXVI | 321 |
Treats of the Ifland of Ceylon or Zeloan | 336 |
CHAP XXVIII | 345 |
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