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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602-1607, Pyrard de Laval learnt the local language and studied the culture, flora and fauna of the islands. On his escape to Goa he continued his cultural investigations in Portuguese India, before returning to France by way of Saint Helena and Brazil in 1611. His book, which included practical advice for French traders travelling to Asia and a phrase book for visitors to the Maldives, was an immediate success. This three-volume translation of the 1619 edition appeared in 1887-1890.
Contents
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.
