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"Captain Alexander Hamilton collated an account of his voyage to Cambodia and Siam in 1718 with accounts of his
experiences in Pegu and elsewhere on earlier travels, as well as information he had gathered about certain other
locations (such as Arakan) in his A New Account of the East Indies (Edinburgh, 1727). While the original account also
included accounts of parts of the Malay world and ?Cochinchina,? these have been excluded from the following
text. The account begins with a brief account of Chittagong and concludes with eastern mainland Southeast Asia.
The best biographical account of Hamilton is that by William Foster in his introduction to the 1930 reprint of the
text (London, Argonaut Press)."
M.W.C....Includes sections on Chittagong, Arakan, Pegu, Mergui, Tenasserim and The Andamans,
Source/publisher:
A New Account of the East Indies (Edinburgh, 1727). via SOAS Bulletin og Burma Research 4.2 (Autumn 2006)
Date of Publication:
1727-00-00
Date of entry:
2010-10-03
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English