The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their InhabitantsHakluyt Society, 1921 - 238 páginas |
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The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering ..., Edição 49 Duarte Barbosa,Fernão de Magalhães Visualização integral - 1921 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Ali Raja alluded ambergris Arab Archipelago bahar Barbosa Barros Bay of Bengal Bengal Calicut called Cambaya Cananor Castanheda caste Cathay ceremony Ceylon Champa China Chinese Chittagong cinnamon cloth coast Cochin colour Correa Coulam Dalgado Decadas derived doubt east Edited elephants expedition fanams farazola Fernão Ferrand Francisco Serrão Ganges Gaur given gives Glossario gold Heathen Hobson-Jobson India island Jaoa Java King Kingdom known Kovilagam land leagues Linschoten Lord Malabar Malaca Malay Malayalam Maluco Marco Polo mentioned merchants Moors Muhammadan Nambūtiri Narsyngua Nayars Nayres Orta passage Pedir Pegu pepper port Porto Grande Portuguese Portuguese text principal probably Pulicat quilates Raja Ramusio river rubies Sanchayanam says Serrão ships Siam sixteenth century Spanish version speaks Sthānis stones Sumatra thereof town trade translated Varthema Vijayanagar voyage word Yule and Cordier Zamorin Zamorin's successor
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Página 185 - Javas also, from whence come diamants. And the king hath a masse of earth which is golde ; it groweth in the middle of a river, and when the king doth lacke gold, they cut part of the earth and melt it, whereof commeth golde. This masse of earth doth appeare but once in a yere ; which is when the water is low, and this is in the moneth of April.
Página 96 - Friars, departed from Tauris, a city of the Persians, in the year of the Lord 1291, and proceeded to India. And I remained in the country of India, wherein stands the church of St. Thomas the Apostle, for thirteen months, and in that region baptized in different places about one hundred persons.
Página 288 - 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...
Página 173 - Malaca is the richest seaport with the greatest number of wholesale merchants and abundance of shipping and trade that can be found in the whole world.
Página 70 - The more part of them are great merchants, and they deal in precious stones, seed pearls and corals, and other valuable goods, such as gold and silver, either coined or to be coined. This is their principal trade, and they follow it, because they can raise or lower the prices of such things many times ; they are rich and respected ; they lead a clean life, and have spacious houses in their own appointed streets : they also have their own houses of worship, and idols different from those of the natives...
Página 42 - Target at the doore, and the time that he is there, there dare not any be so hardie as to come into that house. The Kings children shall not inherite the Kingdome after their Father, because they hold this opinion, that perchance they were not begotten of the King their Father, but of some other man; therefore they accept for their King, one of the sonnes of the King's sisters, or of some other woman of the blood Royal, for that they be sure they are of the blood Royal.
Página 42 - And amongst the other classes of pagans above-mentioned, one woman has five, six, and seven husbands, and even eight. And one sleeps with her one night, and another another night. And when the woman has children, she says it is the child of this husband or of that husband, and thus the children go according to the word of the woman.
Página 178 - The women have a petticoat from the navel to the knee, and their hair clofe fhaved ; but the men have the hair left on the upper part of the head, and below the crown, but cut fo fhort that it hardly comes to their ears.
Página 145 - ... silk scarves, they carry in their girdles daggers garnished with silver and gold, according to the rank of the person who carries them ; on their fingers many rings set with rich jewels, and cotton turbans on their heads. They are luxurious, eat well and spend freely, and have many other extravagancies as well. They bathe often in great tanks which they have in their houses.
Página ii - Index. (Out of print. Second Edition in preparation.) Issued for 1848. 4— Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595, By THOMAS MAYNARDE, together with the Spanish Account of Drake's, attack on Puerto Rico. Edited from the original MSS. by WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY.