Chap. II. through fever at Countries of the IN D I E S. 
Value than any other Quality whatever. As the Writer 
often refers to the ancient Hiftory of India, and the Cu~ 
ftoms of the People before they were at all intermixed with. 
Foreigners, the former Part of this Work will enable even 
the unlearned Reader to underftand all thefe Things per- 
fedtly, and to reap a new Pleafure from perufmg this Per- 
formance, as we have placed it, fince he is/alfeady poffeff- 
ed of all the Lights - that are neceffary to illuftrate it. By 
comparing the lifftorical Paffages that occur in relation to 
the Mogul Empire with die fuccin& Hiftory we have al- 
ready given of that Government, thefe Travels will be- 
come a Supplement to that Reign in which the Author 
vifited Indofian. 
We cannot have a better Account of the general Situa- 
tion of Trade, or of the particular Circumftances of the fe- 
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vcral European > Nations concerned in the Commerce of 
the Indies,- for the Time in which- lie wrote, than e'ur Au- 
thor hag given ; and, therefore, as his Work is ^elucidated 
by what is contained in the preceding Seditions, fo his Ac- 
counts will fervc to throw Light upon the following Sec- 
tions, and deliver the Reader from the Toil of running 
th.ro® a dry Difcuffion of Faffs, which, though tedious in 
itfelf, would otherwife make a neceffary Part of this Per- 
formance. As to the References that occur in thefe and 
in the fubfequent Relation to our Author's Travels; through 
Perfia, they will be cleared up by refeiifring to thofe Tra- 
vel’s in the fubfequent Volumn. At prefen t we ihall pro- 
ceed with his Voyages through and Remarks. on the reft of 
the Indies, which -will he found no Ms curious and improv- 
ing than thofe we have already perufed. 
SECT I Q N XXVII. 
The' remaining Voyages of John Albert de Mandeliloe through the Indies* including . , his 
, Defcriptions . of Countries ? hijlorkal Remarks upon fever al Nations 3 and his Gbferva - 
tions on the Commerce of the Portugueze 3 Engli£h 5 and Dutch at that Time. 
Tranilated Toni the Author’s original Voyage, written by himfelf. 
• ■ , ■ 
i. An introductory Account of the Deftgn of thii SeAion. . 2'. The Author’s Departure from Surat in the 
Tear 163-9*. 3. He arrives in the Port of Goa, and gives us a particular Account of that City , and of 
the Reception he met with there. 4. A compleat View of the Government , Mannei% Cuftoms and Corn -■ 
merce of the Portugueze. 5. Continuation of his Voyage , including an Account of the Malabar Coafl, and 
its Inhabitants . 6. A fuccinCi Hiftory of the If and of Ceylon. 7. A particular • Defer iption of that 
If and , and the Commodities it produces. 8. The Informations he received from the Portuguese Jefuits as 
to the Countries he did not viflil 9. A very large and particular Defer iption of the, Coafl of Coromandel, 
together with the Kingdoms of Pegu ^W Siam. 10. The Kingdoms of Cambodia, Malacca, Patapan, and 
■ Johore deferibe'd. ii. A View of the great Ifland of Sumatra, and its Inhabitants. 12. A diftindl Ac- 
count of the Ifland of Java, its fever al Principalities and their Inhabitants. 13. Of the Iflarids of Ce- 
lebes and Amboyna ^ together with an Account of the Spice-Iftands, and their Commerce. 14. An Ac- 
count of the Philippines, and of the Spanifh Government there „ 15, The Hiflory of Japan, and the ad- 
jacent Iflands , as delivered to the Author by the Miffionaries. 16. A veryflngular Defcription of the Ifland 
cf Formofti, and its Inhabitants. , 17,. A fuccinCl Account of the mighty Empire of China. 18. The 
Author s Voyage to the Cape of Good-Hope; 19. Obfervations made there , and in his Pafl age to Ma- 
dagafear. 20. A very full Relation of the Ifland. of Madagafcar, audits Inhabitants . 21. An Account 
of the Portugueze Settlement in the Ifland of Mofambique, 2.2. The Author profecutes his Voyage to 
the Iflatid of St. Helena. 23. The Author’ S Obfervations upon that ' Ifland > the Ifland of St: Thomas, 
and other adjacent Iflands. 24. An hifibric'al Account , together with the Author’s Remarks on the Por- 
tugueze Settlements in Africa. 25. That Subjepl continued, with a fitccinU Defcription of thofe Colonies 
at that Time. 26, An. Ac count of Cape-Verd and the adjacent iflands. 27- Remarks on the Azores, 
Madera, and Canary-Elands, 28, Occurrences in their Voyage from the Azores to the Port of Lon- 
don. 29. Objervations made by the Author during his Stay in England. 30. His Return through 
Holland to Holftein. 3 1 . Remarks and Obfervations on the before-mentioned Voyages. 
HE great Kindnefs and many Civilities fhewn or a Dutch Writer, can never diveft himfelf entirely of 
g to Mr. Mandelfioe by the chief Director of the the Prejudices imparted to him by his Country ; but "this 
JL. Rnglifa Commerce at Surat , naturally inclined Gentleman could have none of thofe Prejudices, and tKere- 
fiim to lay hold of the Offer that Gentleman made him of fore we may fafely rely upon what he fays of any, or of 
returning to. Europe in an Englijh. Ship, which he the more all thefe Nations. He had not only an Inclination, but an 
readily accepted, becaule it put it in his Power to execute Intereft alfo irl purfuing Truth. It was this, aficl this only, 
his Commiffion fully of gaining the beft Intelligence he that could recommend him to his Mafter, and therefore of 
could as to the Commerce of the Eaft. Th t Englijh Di- this he never loft Sight. The German Probity appears no 
rector was to make a trading Voyage, which particularly where with greater Luftre than in his Writings •, and it 
required his vifiting the Portuguese Ports, where he had Was the Angular Felicity of this great Traveller, that with 
many Affairs to fettle and this could, not but be agreeable a Capacity equal to his Undertaking, he joined a Candour 
to a Man who travelled from fuch Views as our Author altogether unblemifhed. Let us then reltirne the Thread 
had, inafmuch as it gave him an Opportunity of feeing of his Narration, and after travelling with him through 
whatever he withed to behold, and afforded at the fa'me Indoftan , embark with him at Surat for die Voyage *of 
time the faireft Occafions for examining all he faw. We the Indies, . 
Ihall difeern, from the: fiibiequent Seftion, that he im- ' ' 2. The Englijh chief DireAor having taken Leave of 
proved thefe Advantages to the utmoft, and that he car- the Governor of Surat , the Firft of January , 1679, who 
tied back with him to his Mafter the eleareft and moftcir- received him with extraordinary Civility, and prefented 
cumftantial Account of the Indies that had till that Tinie him with a Garment of Brotade, befid,es many other Ra-’ 
appeared in Europe. rities ; and having ipent two Days more in taking our 
I cannot but obferve, -with refpeeft to this Detail of Faffs, Leaves of our Friends, We went on Board the third in 
that he is, of all Writers, the moil unfufpefted, and. there- Company with the new Prefident, and all the other Err 
lore the mod worthy of Credit. An Englijh , a French , glijh Merchants, where we feafted for three Daysy and ar 
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