The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their InhabitantsHakluyt Society, 1918 - 238 pages |
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according Aden Africa Alboquerque alluded Arabia Arabic Barros Benametapa Berbera called Cambay Cananor Cape Captain Captain-in-Chief century Chaul cloth coast Çofala coins Correa cotton Diogo divers doubt Duarte Barbosa East expedition fleet fortress Garcia de Orta given gives gold Governor Gujarat Gulf of Cambay harbour Heathen Hindu hither Hobson-Jobson horses Hucicas Hurmuz Ibn Batuta identified Idrisi India island Isle João Kilwa King our Lord kingdom of Cambaya known land leagues Linschoten Lopo Soares Lord Stanley Magalhães mainland Malabar Marco Polo mentioned merchants modern Mombaça Moorish Moors Muhammadan Ormus Ormuz passage Periplus Persian Gulf port Portugal Portuguese Portuguese editors Portuguese text probably Ramusio Red Sea Ribero's map rice river Roteiro rulers says Shāh ships silk Spanish version speaks Stanley's Theal town trade translation travellers Turks Vasco da Gama Vijayanagar voyage wear word writers Xeque Yule Zeila
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Page 7 - Quiloa, in which is a Moorish town with many fair houses of stone and mortar, with many windows after our fashion, very well arranged in streets, with many flat roofs. The doors are of wood, well carved, with excellent joinery. Around it are streams and orchards with many channels of sweet water.
Page 162 - Stuart periods, are admirable examples of English prose at the stage of its most robust development. The Society has not confined its selection to the books of English travellers, to a particular age, or to particular regions. Where the original is foreign, the work is given in English...
Page 124 - The king allows such freedom that every man may come and go and live according to his own creed without suffering any annoyance and without enquiry whether he is a Christian, a Jew, a Moor or a Hindu.
Page 10 - This is a place of great traffic, and has a good harbour, in which are always moored craft of many kinds and also great ships, both of those which come from...
Page 128 - Nor is there any people at all such as has been invented, who have but one foot which they use to shade themselves withal. But as all the Indians commonly go naked, they are in the habit of carrying a thing like a little tentroof on a cane handle, which they open out at will as a protection against sun or rain, this they call a chatyr [from Persian chair = umbrella]; I brought one to Florence with me.
Page 8 - Arabia Felix which henceforth we may call by this name even though it be in Ethiopia for all the sea-coast is well-peopled with villages and abodes of Moors.
Page 126 - powerful lord' and he coined a money of pardaos which even now they call 'puroure deorao' ; and from that time forward it has become a custom to call coins by the names of the kings that made them ; and it is because of this that there are so many names of pardaos in the kingdom of Bisnaga".
Page 77 - With the King's connivance many corsairs launch from this port to plunder merchants. These corsairs have a covenant with the King that he shall get all the horses they capture, and all other plunder shall remain with them. The King does this because he has no horses of his own, whilst many are shipped from abroad towards India; for no ship ever goes 'thither without horses in addition to other cargo. The practice is naughty and unworthy of a king.