Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies
The First Book, Containing his Description of the East

This two-volume account (edited in 1885 from a 1598 translation) describes Linschoten's travels to the Indian Ocean and back.

John Huyghen van Linschoten (Author), P. A. Tiele (Edited by), William Phillip (Translated by)

9781108010856, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 2010

362 pages
21.6 x 2 x 14 cm, 0.46 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of the East Indian travels of John Huyghen van Linschoten, originally published in the Netherlands in 1596 and translated into English in 1598, was published by the society in 1885 using an edited version of the early translation, supplemented with explanatory notes. It provides a rich source of information about Portuguese trade with the East Indies, as well as descriptions of the fauna, flora and indigenous peoples of the regions he visited, from the Azores and St Helena to Java and Sumatra.

46. Of the elephant
47. Of the abadas or rhinoceros
48. Of the fishes and other beasts in the sea of India
49. Of all fruits, trees, plants, and common hearbs in India
50. Of iaqua, or iaacca
51. Of mangas
52. Of cajous
53. Of jambos
54. Of other fruites in India
55. Of the Indian figges
56. Of the palm tree
57. Of the duryoens, a fruit of Malacca
58. Of the tree arbor de rays and the bambus
59. Of the tree called arbor triste
60. Of the bettele leaves and the fruit arecca
61. Of the herbe dutroa
62. Of spices, drugges, plants, and stuffes for physitions
63. Of cinamon
64. Of ginger
65. Of cloves
66. Of mace, folie, or flowers of nutmegges
67. Of cardamomum
68. Of lacke, or hard wax
69. Of annil or indigo
70. Of benioin
72. Of frankincense and mirre
73. Of manna and rhubarbe
74. Of the wood called sanders
75. Of palo de cobra, or snakewood
76. Of the wood calamba, or lignum aloes
77. Of the root China
78. Of amfion, alias opium
79. Of bangue
80. Of camphora
81. Of Tamarinio
82. Of Mirabolanes
83. Of other spice and hearbes in India
84. Of all sorts of pearles
85. Of diamonds
86. Of rubies, espinelles, granades, emeralds, and other precious stones
87. Of the bezar stones
88. A briefe instruction how to know and find out the right diamantes, rubies, emeralds, perals, and other precious stones
89. Of rubies
90. Of the oriental and old emeralds
91. Of oriental pearles
92. Of certaine memorable things, passed in India during my residence there
93. Of my voyage and departure from India to Portingale
94. A briefe description of the iland Saint Helena
95. Of the iland called the Ascention
96. A briefe description of the islands of Canaria
97. Of the description of the islands of Acores
98. Of the ilands of Corvo and Flores
99. Of certain notable and memorable accidents that happened during my continuance in Tercera.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]