A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon. Vol. 3. : with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures. The manners, habits, oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants; as likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorn'd with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c. of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts ; partly from frequent conversation with their priests and divines : with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. / by Phillipus Baldaeus, Minister of the Word of God in Ceylon. Translated from the High-Dutch printed at Amsterdam, 1672

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