India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the Century Preceding the Portuguese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into EnglishRichard Henry Major |
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Abd-er-Razzák afterwards ambassador animal Arabs arrived Beder Bidjanagar bird Boris and Gleb Calicut Cambay camphor Cape Caspian Sea century Ceylon China Christians coast colour Conti Covilham cubits cubits in length Dabul Daiang describes distance East elephants empire extremely four fruit Ganges ghez gold Gulf Gulf of Cambay happy Khakan head Herat Hindoo horse hundred Ibn Batuta idols India inhabitants island Java Jooneer journey Khan king kingdom Kniaz land Mahommedan Malabar Maldives Mangalore Marco Polo Melikh merchants miles in circumference monarch month mountains Muhammedan Muscat narrative natives Nestorian Nicolň night Ollo Ormuz palace passed pearls pepper Persian pieces port precious stones present prince province Ptolemy reached Red Sea resembling river round Rukh Russian sailed says sent Shah ship Shirvanshah silk Sindbad Soliman sovereign sultan Sumatra Taprobana thence thou thousand tion town traveller tree twenty vessel viziers voyage women wood