Description:
Editor?s Note: ...The account reproduced below attempts to provide as complete a version
of Federici?s account of Pegu as possible, based on the Hakluyt and Purchas
editions, but checked for major errors against the original Hickok translation. The
text included below only includes the sections relevant to Burma and Southeast
Asia, for information on trade in India and the Middle East, the reader is directed to
the Voyages or Hakluytus Posthumus, or the Hickok original (the latter may be
republished here in a later issue)...
M.W.C....C?sar Frederick to the Reader...A Voyage to the East Indies, and Beyond the Indies, &c....Sumatra...Malacca...Pegu?s Conquest of Siam...Tenasserim...Difficulties of Journey...Martaban...Dealings with the Retor at Martaban...Voyage to City of Pegu...City of Pegu...Royal Elephants in Pegu...Armies of the King of Pegu...The Wealth of the King of Pegu...Justice in Pegu...Death and Property in Pegu...Commerce in Pegu...Duties and Currency in Pegu...Manner of Dress at Pegu4...A Typhoon...Sundiva Island and Arakan...Commodities of India...Return to Pegu...Commerce of the East Indies...End of Voyage
Source/publisher:
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 2004
Date of Publication:
1588-06-18
Date of entry:
2010-10-03
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English