A True and Exad 
DESCRIPTION 
OF X H E 
Moft Celebrated Eaft-India Coafts 
O F 
MALABAR 
AND 
COROMANDE 
As alfo of the Me of Ceylon. 
With all the adjacent Kingdoms, Principalities, Provinces, Cities, 
Chief Harbors, Stru6tures, Pagan Temples, Produds, and living 
Creatures. The Manners, Habits, Oeconomies and Ceremo- 
nies cf the Inhabitants i as likewife the moft remarkable Warlike 
Exploits^ SiegeSj Sea and Field-Engagements betwixt the ^ortu-- 
guejes 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 Produd: of the Indies^ drawn 
to the Life, and cut in Copper Plates. 
Alfo a moft Circumftantial and Compleat Account of the Idolatry of the Pa- 
gans in the Eaft-hdks, the MalaharSy Benjans, Gemives, Brahmans, Sec. 
Taken partly from their own Vedam or Law- Book, and Authentick Manu- 
fcripts ; partly from frequent Converfation with their Priefts and Divines : 
With the Draughts of their Idols, done after their Originals. 
By Philip BALDi?:us, Minifler of the Word of 
God in Ceylon. 
Tranflated from the High-Dutch printed at Amflerdaniy 1672. 
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