A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manners, habits oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, seaand field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c . of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts ...with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. By Philip Baldaeus ... Translated fr om the High Dutch, printed at Amsterdam 1672
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