A Voyage to East India, Table of contents – Map

A Voyage to East India · Table of contents – Map

The Contents of this following Relation.

THe beginning of our Voyage, our Ships and chief Commander pag. 1. 2.

A Tempeſt pag. 2. 3.

The grand Canaries, and and Iſland of Teneriffa. p. 3. 4.

The Turnadoes, or ſelf oppoſing windes 5. 6.

Divers kinde of Fiſhes 7. &c.

The Bay of Souldania and Cape of good Hope, with the Barbarous people there inhabiting 13. &c.

The great Iſland Madagaſcar, and ſome other parts of Africa 33. 34.

A Sea fight with a Portugal Caraque and the iſſue thereof 35. &c.

The Iſland Mohilia 53. 54.

The Coquer Nut-tree 55.

Our arrive at Swally-Road in Eaſt-India 57.

Some particulars to revive the memorie of that now almoſt forgotten) Engliſh Pilgrim Tom. Coriat. 58. &c.

The large Territories under the ſubjection of the great Mogol. Where,

Section 1. pag. 78. &c. Of the ſeveral Provinces, the chief Cities, the principal Rivers, the extent of that vaſt Empire in its length and breadth.

Section 2. p. 92. &c. Of the Soyl there, what it is, and what it produceth.

Section 3. p. 111. &c. Of the chief Merchandizes, and moſt ſtaple, and other Commodities which are bought in this Empire.

Section 4. p. 121. &c. Of the diſcommodities, inconveniences, and annoyances that are to be found, or met withall in this Empire.

Section 5. p. 127. &c. Of the Inhabitants of Eaſt-India, who they are of their moſt excellent ingenuity expreſſed by their curious manufactures, their Markets at home, to buy, and ſell in, and of their trade abroad.

Section 6. p. 139. &c. Of the care & skill of this people in keeping, and managing their excellent good Horſes, of their Elephants, and the ordering, and managing them, and how the people ride and are carried up and down from place to place.

Section 7. p. 158. &c. Of their numerous Armies, their Ammunition for war; how they lade themſelves with Weapons; how terribly they appear; yet how puſill animous, and low ſpirited they are.

Section 8. p. 170. &c. Of our ſafe and ſecure living amongſt the Natives there, if we do not provoke them, of their faithfulneſſe unto thoſe that entertain them as ſervants: for how little they ſerve, and yet how diligent they are.

Section 9. p. 187. &c. Of their buildings in Villages, Towns, and Cities. How their houſes are furniſhed: Of their Sarraes, or houſes for the entertainment of Paſſengers: Of their Tankes and Wells, and of their places of pleaſure.

Section 10. p. 205. &c. Of their diet, and their Cookery in dreſſing it.

Section 11. p. 212. &c. Of the civilities of this people: Of their compliments, and of their habites.

Section 12. p. 232. &c. Of their Language, their books, their learning.

Section 13. p. 241. &c. Of their Phyſicians, diſeaſes, cures, when they begin their year, and how they meaſure their time.

Section 14. p. 248. &c. Of the moſt excellent moralities, which are to be obſerved amongſt the people of thoſe Nations.

Section 15. p. 259. &c. Of their Religion, their Prieſts, their Detion, their Churches.

Section 16. p. 281. &c. Of their Votaries, where of the voluntary, and ſharp penances that people undergo. Of their Lent, and of their faſts and feaſts.

Section 17. p. 297. &c. Of the marriages of the Mahometans, and of their Poligamy.

Section 18. p. 305. &c. Of their burials, and of their mourning for their dead, and their ſtately Sepulchres and Monuments.

Section 19. p. 318. &c. Of the Hindooes, or Heathens which inhabite that Empire.

Section 20. p. 326 &c. Of the tenderneſſe of that people in preſerving the lives of all inferiour creatures.

Section 21. p. 342. Of ſtrange groundleſſe and very groſſe opinions proceeding from the blackneſſe & darkneſs of ignorance in that people.

Section 22. p. 363. Of their King the great Mogol, his deſcent, &c.

Section 23. p. 369. &c. Of the Mogols policy in his Government exerciſed by himſelf and Subſtitutes.

Section 24. p. 389. &c. Of the Mogol ſhewing himſelf three times publickly unto his people every day, and in what ſtate and glorie he doth oftentimes appear.

Section 25. p. 402. &c. Of the Mogols paſtimes at home and abroad, where ſomething of his quality and diſpoſition.

Section 26. p. 410. &c. Of the exceeding great Penſions the Mogol gives unto his ſubjects, how they are raiſed, and how long they are continued.

Section 27. p. 418. &c. Of the Mogols Leskar, or Camp Royal.

Section 28. p. 426. &c. Of the Mogols wives and women, where ſomething of his Children.

Section 29. p. 436. &c. Of the manner of the ſtile, or writing of that Court.

Section 30. p. 440. &c. Of the Jeſuits ſent thither by their Superiours to convert people unto Chriſtianity.

Section 31. p. 452. &c. The Corollarie and concluſion.

ERRATA.

A Deſcription of EAST INDIA Conveyning the Empire of the Great MOGOLL