Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Travels in India - Volume 2

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Produktbeschreibung

An 1889 translation of the account of his Indian travels by French merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 751g
• ISBN-13: 9781108046039
• ISBN-10: 1108046037
• Artikelnr.: 35452317

Inhaltsangabe

Book II continued. Historical and Political Description of the Empire of
the Great Mogul: 12. Concerning the articles of merchandise yielded by the
Empire of the Great Mogul, and the Kingdoms of Golconda and Bijapur and
other neighbouring territories; 13. Concerning the frauds which can be
practised in manufactures, whether by the roguery of the workers or the
knavery of the brokers and buyers; 14. Concerning the methods to be
observed for establishing a new commercial company in the East Indies; 15.
Concerning diamonds and the mines and rivers where they are found; and
especially of the author's journey to the Mine of Ramulkota (Raolconda of
the original); 16. Journey of the author to the other mines, and concerning
the method of searching for diamonds; 17. A continuation of the author's
journeys to the diamond mines; 18. The different kinds of weights for
weighing diamonds at the mines; the kinds of gold and silver in
circulation; the routes by which one is able to travel; and the rule in use
for the estimation of the prices of diamonds; 19. Concerning coloured
stones and the places where they are obtained; 20. Concerning pearls and
the places where they are fished for; 21. Concerning the manner in which
pearls originate in oysters, how they are fished for and at what seasons;
22. Remarks upon the largest and most beautiful diamonds and rubies which
the author has seen in Europe and Asia, the figures of which are here
given, together with those of the large stones which he sold to the King on
his return from his last journey to India, with a representation of a
magnificent topaz, and the largest pearls in the world; 23. Concerning
coral and yellow amber and the places where they are found; 24. Concerning
musk and bezoar and some other medicinal stones; 25. Concerning the places
from whence gold is obtained in Asia and Africa; 26. Account of a notable
act of perfidy done to the author when he was about to embark at Gombroon
for Surat; Book III. Concerning the Religion of the Muhammadans and that of
the Idolaters of India: the Voyage of the Author by Sea from Surat to
Batavia, and from Batavia to Holland; and of Many Peculiarities in
Different Kingdoms of the East: 1. Concerning the religion of the
Muhammadans in the East Indies; 2. Concerning fakirs or Muhammadan beggars
in the East Indies; 3. Of the religion of the gentiles or idolaters of
India; 4. Concerning the idolatrous Kings and Princes of Asia; 5.
Concerning the belief of the idolaters with respect to the deity; 6.
Concerning fakirs, or the professional mendicants of India, and their
penances; 7. Concerning the belief of the idolaters touching the condition
of the soul of man after death; 8. Concerning the idolaters' customs of
burning the bodies of the deceased; 9. How the women burn themselves with
the bodies of their deceased husbands in India; 10. Remarkable histories of
several women who have been burnt after the death of their husbands; 11.
Concerning the most celebrated pagodas of the idolaters of India; 12.
Continuation of the description of the principal pagodas of the idolaters
of India; 13. Concerning the pilgrimages of the idolaters to their pagodas;
14. Concerning various customs of the idolaters of India; 15. Concerning
the Kingdom of Bhután, from whence comes musk, good rhubarb, and some furs;
16. Concerning the Kingdom of Tipperah; 17. Concerning the Kingdom of
Assam; 18. Concerning the Kingdom of Siam; 19. Concerning the Kingdom of
Macassar and the Dutch Embassy to China; 20. The author pursues his journey
in the east and embarks at Vengurla for Batavia; the danger which he runs
on the sea, and his arrival in the Island of Ceylon; 21. Departure of the
author from the Island of Ceylon, and his arrival at Batavia; 22.
Concerning an affair which was raised unseasonably for the author in the
Council at Batavia; 23. The author goes to see the King