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A New Account of the East Indies - Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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A New Account of the East Indies - Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 1
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Little is known of Captain Alexander Hamilton other than what he
tells us in this work, first published in 1727. Written during his
retirement, it is both an invaluable source of information on
south-east Asia at the time and a lively travelogue of Hamilton's
adventurous seafaring life in the service of the East India Company
and independently between 1688 and 1723. An engaging storyteller,
Hamilton writes of encounters with pirates, the Portuguese, and of
a poisoning in Malacca, as well as providing vivid descriptions of
the countries he visited - from Africa to Japan via India, Sumatra
and China - and their social customs, religions, trade and
commerce. His idiosyncratic maps and illustrations enhance his
narrative despite his admission that he makes 'but little use of
the pencil'. Volume 1 takes the reader up the east coast of Africa
to the Middle East, and round the coast of India to Ceylon.
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