A New Account of the East Indies
Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton
2 Volume Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
- Author: Alexander Hamilton
- Date Published: April 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108055208
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Little is known of Captain Alexander Hamilton other than what he tells us in this work, first published in 1727. Written during his retirement, it is both an invaluable source of information on south-east Asia at the time and a lively travelogue of Hamilton's adventurous seafaring life in the service of the East India Company and independently between 1688 and 1723. An engaging storyteller, Hamilton writes of encounters with pirates, the Portuguese, and of a poisoning in Malacca, as well as providing vivid descriptions of the countries he visited - from Africa to Japan via India, Sumatra and China - and their social customs, religions, trade and commerce. His idiosyncratic maps and illustrations enhance his narrative despite his admission that he makes 'but little use of the pencil'.
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- Date Published: April 2013
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108055208
- length: 788 pages
- dimensions: 225 x 145 x 50 mm
- weight: 0.9kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 7 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Gives a traditional account of the first settling of Europeans at the Cape of Good Hope
2. Gives a short description of the islands in the Ethiopian seas
3. Gives a description of Zeyla's sea-coast
4. Gives a short description of the coast of Arabia the Happy
5. Gives a description of the Immaum of Mocha's country
6. Contains a description of Aden
7. Treats of the kingdom and city of Muskat
8. Gives an account of Bassora city
9. Gives a description of the sea-coast of Persia
10. Is a continuation of observations on the empire of Persia
11. Treats of the Mogul's dominions on the river Indus
12. Gives an account of the ancient kingdom of Guzerat
13. Gives an account of the cities of Cambay, Baroach and Surat
14. Is a continuation of my observations of the religions and customs used in Surat
15. Gives an account of the famous Aurengzeb's birth
16. Treats of the cities and towns on the sea-coast belonging to the crown of Portugal
17. Gives a description of Bombay
18. Continues the observations on the affairs of Bombay
19. Gives an account of the war of Bombay
20. Gives an account of what is remarkable on some islands, and of the sea-coast, as far as Goa
21. Gives an account of Goa
22. Gives an account of Sundah Rajah's dominions
23. Gives a description of Canara
24. Treats of the Malabars
25. Observations of the Samorin and his country
26. Gives an acount of Couchin
27. Treats of the island of Ceylon
28. Treats of the countries of the sea-coast
29. Gives a short description of Fort St George
30. Gives an account of the coast of Chormondel
31. Treats of the sea-coast and some inland countries in the ancient kingdom of Orixa
32. Is an account of the maritime towns on the coast of Orixa. Volume 2:
33. Treats of the towns, cities, country, and customs of Bengal
34. Is a continuation of the description of Bengal
35. Gives an account of Xatigam
36. Gives an account of the famous kingdom of Pegu
37. Gives an account of the Pegu clergy
38. Treats of Merjee and Tanacerin
39. Give an account of Malacca
40. Treats of the dominion of Johore
41. Gives an account of the island of Sumatra
42. Gives an account of the islands and trading ports on the west coast of Sumatra
43. Treats of the east side of Sumatra
44. Treats of Java and the islands near it
45. Gives an account of Borneo
46. A continuation of the dominions of Johore
47. Gives an account of the dominions and city of Siam
48. Gives an account of Cambodia
49. Treats of Couchin-China
50. Gives some account of China
51. Some observations and remarks on the province and city of Canton
52. Is a continuation of the history of Fokien
53. A continuation of observations on the gods, clergy, and devotion of the Chinese
54. Gives some account of the islands of Mindanoa, Luconia, Formosa, and Japon.
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