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The first place visited by de Costa on this voyage of discovery was a large bay near _Masilage_[6] in lat. 16° S. in which there is an island half a league in circumference containing a town of 8000 inhabitants, most of them weavers of an excellent kind of stuff made of the palm-tree. At this place the Moors used to purchase boys who were carried to Arabia and sold for infamous uses. The king of this place, named Samamo, received the Portuguese in a friendly manner, and granted leave to preach the gospel among his subjects. Coasting about 40 leagues south from this place, they. | A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Vol. 7 1 A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Vol. 7 The Project Gutenberg EBook of A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume VII by Robert Kerr This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume VII Author Robert Kerr Release Date August 25 2004 EBook 13287 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOYAGES AND TRAVELS VOLUME VII Produced by Robert Connal Graeme Mackreth and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION DISCOVERY AND COMMERCE BY SEA AND LAND FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY ROBERT KERR . . EDIN. ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS. VOL. VII. MDCCCXXIV. CONTENTS OF VOL. VII. PART II. BOOK III. CONTINUED. CHAP. IV. Continued. SECT. XIII. Account of an expedition of the Portuguese from India to Madagascar in 1613. PART II. BOOK III. CONTINUED. 2 XIV. Continuation of the transactions of the Portuguese in India from 1617 to 1640 and the conclusion of the Portuguese Asia of Manuel de Faria. XV. Occurrences in Pegu Martavan Pram Siam and other places. XVI. A short account of the Portuguese possessions between the Cape of Good Hope and China. CHAP. V. Voyages and Travels in Egypt Syria Arabia Persia and India. By Ludovico Verthema in 1503. Introduction SECT. I Of the Navigation from Venice to Alexandria in Egypt and from thence to Damascus in Syria. II. Of the City of Damascus. CHAP.

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