The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil

A seventeenth-century description of the East Indies, published in English in three volumes (1887-1890) by the Hakluyt Society.

Zusammenfassung
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volumes 77, 78 and 80 (18871890) contain Pyrard de Laval's account of how, shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602-1607, he learnt the language and studied the culture of the inhabitants.

Inhalt

Introduction; Chronology of Pyrard's voyage; Addenda et corrigenda; Title page of the third French edition; Dedicatory epistle; 1. Narrative of the voyage from the embarking at St. Malo to the Cape of Good Hope; 2. Of the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape of the Needles; 3. We anchor in St. Augustine's bay, at the island of St. Lawrence; 4. We touch at the Comorro Islands; 5. Pitiable wreck of the ship Corbin on the reefs of the Maldives; 6. What happened to the men who were saved from the Corbin; 7. Arrival of a lord bearing the king's commission at the island of Paindoüé; 8. Arrival of the author at the island of Málé; 9. Grievous sickness of the author; 10. Description of the Maldive Island; 11. Of the religion of the inhabitants of the Maldives; 12. More of their ceremonies at betrothals and weddings, at obsequies and funerals; 13. Of the form of their apparel, of their manner of living; 14. Form of the government of the State; 15. Orders of the people and of the nobility; 16. Of the king's palace; 17. Of the revenues of the king, of the money, traffic, and commerce of the Maldives; 18. Curiosity of the Maldive king; 19. The Maldives, when peopled; 20. Accidents and casualties to ships at the Maldives; 21. Of a captured Portuguese vessel that was wrecked; 22. Divers judgments passed for adultery, lewdness, and other crimes; 23. Of the expedition of the king of Bengal to the Maldives; 24. The kingdom of Bengal, and some observations thereon; 25. Voyage to Calecut by way of Montingué, Badara, and Marquaire; 26. Arrival of the author at Calecut, and a description of that kingdom; 27. More of Calecut; 28. Of the kingdoms of Chaly, Tananor, and Cochin; 29. Voyage from Cochin to Goa.