The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil

A seventeenth-century description of the East Indies, published in English in three volumes (1887–1890) by the Hakluyt Society.

François Pyrard (Author), Albert Gray (Edited and translated by), H. C. P. Bell (Edited by)

9781108013468, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2010

348 pages, 6 b/w illus.
21.6 x 2 x 14 cm, 0.44 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602–1607, Pyrard de Laval learnt the local language and studied the culture, flora and fauna of the islands. On his escape to Goa he continued his cultural investigations in Portuguese India, before returning to France by way of Saint Helena and Brazil in 1611. His book, which included practical advice for French traders travelling to Asia and a phrase book for visitors to the Maldives, was an immediate success. This three-volume translation of the 1619 edition appeared in 1887–1890.

Introduction
Chronology of events
Addenda et corrigenda
Dedicatory epistle
1. Arrival at Goa, and description of the hospitals and prisons there
2. Description of the island of Goa, the chief inhabitants, and lords
3. Of the city of Goa
4. Of the markets, slaves, money, water, and other remarkable things at Goa
5. Of the government of Goa
6. Of the Archbishop of Goa
7. Of the exercises and games of the Portuguese, Metifs, and other Christians at Goa
8. Of the Portuguese soldiers at Goa
9. Of the kingdom of Dealcan, Decan, or Ballagate, and the neighbourhood of Goa
10. Voyage of the author to Ceylon, and description of that island
11. Of Malaca, a description of it, and the memorable siege which the Hollanders laid thereto
12. Of the islands of Sunda - Sumatra, and Java - and the towns of Bantan and Tuban
13. Of the singular things that are brought from the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and from the Philippines and Manilla
14. Of the form and fashion of the Portuguese ships going to the Indies
15. Of the traffic of the Portuguese throughout the Indies in general
16. Of the traffic to Brazil
17. Of the traffic at Mozambique and other places
18. Of the kingdom of Ormuz
19. Of the kingdoms of Cambaye, Surat, and of the Grand Mogor
20. Many captures of Portuguese ships
21. The author's taking ship at Goa
22. Departure from Goa.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]