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GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. VII.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

PART II.--(Continued.)

BOOK III.--(Continued.)

CONTINUATION OF THE DISCOVERIES AND CONQUESTS OF THEPORTUGUESE IN THE EAST; TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLYVOYAGES OF OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS TO INDIA.

CHAPTERIV.--(Continued.)

Continuation of the Portuguese transactions in India, afterthe return of Don Stefano de Gama from Suez in 1541, to theReduction of Portugal under the Dominion of Spain in 1581.

SECTION XIII. Account of an expedition of the Portuguese fromIndia to Madagascar in 1613.

SECTION XIV. Continuation of the transactions of thePortuguese in India, from 1617 to 1640: and the conclusion of thePortuguese Asia of Manuel de Faria.

SECTION XV. Occurrences in Pegu, Martavan, Pram, Siam, andother places.

SECTION XVI. A short account of the Portuguese possessionsbetween the Cape of Good Hope and China.

CHAPTER V.

Voyages and Travels in Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, andIndia.
By Ludovico Verthema, in 1503.

Introduction

SECTION I. Of the Navigation from Venice to Alexandria inEgypt, and from thence to Damascus in Syria.

SECTION II. Of the City of Damascus.

SECTION III. Of the Journey from Damascus to Mecca, and of theManners of the Arabians.

SECTION IV. Observations of the Author during his residence atMecca.

SECTION V. Adventures of the Author in various parts of ArabiaFelix, or Yemen.

SECTION VI. Observations of the Author relative to some partsof Persia.

SECTION VII. Observations of the Author on various parts ofIndia.

SECTION VIII. Account of the famous City and Kingdom ofCalicut.

SECTION IX. Observations on various parts of India.

SECTION X. Continuation of the Authors Adventures, after hisreturn to Calicut.

SECTION XI. Account of a memorable Battle between theMahometan Navy of Calicut and the Portuguese.

SECTION XII. Navigation of the Author to Ethiopia, and returnto Europe by Sea.

CHAPTER VI.

Voyages and Travels of Cesar Frederick in India.

Introduction

SECTION I. Voyage from Venice to Bir in Asia Minor.

SECTION II. Of Feluchia and Babylon.

SECTION III. Of Basora.

SECTION IV. Of Ormuz.

SECTION V. Of Goa, Diu, and Cambaya.

SECTION VI. Of Damann, Bassen, Tana, Chaul, and some otherplaces.

SECTION VII. Of Goa.

SECTION VIII. Of the City of Bijanagur.

SECTION IX. Of Cochin.

SECTION X. Of the Pearl Fishery in the Gulf of Manaar.

SECTION XI. Of the Island of Ceylon.

SECTION XII. Of Negapatam.

SECTION XIII. Of Saint Thome and other places.

SECTION XIV. Of the Island of Sumatra and the City ofMalacca.

SECTION XV. Of

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