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The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (Volume 1); From the Sea of Suez to the Coast of Zanguebar. Containing an Account of the Navigation of the Ancients With Dissertations - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1800. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... covery by the Portuguese, with the facility attributed to the attempt of the Phœnicians, in their three years' navigation. But Covilham3'3 is a name of such importance, his history so extraordinary, and his account so connected with the Periplus,. that to pass him in silence would be an unpardonable omiflion. John II. in the beginning of his reign had sent two friars, one of the order of St. Francis, and the other John of Lisbon, with a third who was a layman, into the East3I*, in order to discover India by land* These travellers went, for want of the Arabick language, no farther than Jerusalem. In the year 1486 or 1487 " he therefore sent John Pedreio de Covilham and Alonso de Payva on the same service; and after them two Jews, Abraham of Beja and Joseph of Lamego. As nothing can shew the solicitude of the king more than these circumstances, so nothing can prove his penetration more than this choice of Covilham; he was a soldier, he had served in Africa, had been an ambassador to Morocco, and had acquired the Arabick language to perfection. In obedience to his sovereign he departed from Lisbon316, and took the route of Barcelona and Naples, and thence by Rhodes and Alexandria to Cairo. He there joined a party of Mograbin5" Mahometans, and went in their company to Tor, Suakem, and Aden. At Aden he embarked for Cananor on the coast of Malabar, and visited Ormuz, Goa, and Calicut. Hesaiv Sn Called dc Covilham from the name of Alvarez fays he confessed him in 1521, thirty his birth place. Osorius always writes John three years after he had entered the country. Fetreio. See vol. i. p. 147. 3,6 Alvarez in Ramusio, vol. i. p. 191. 237. "* Castaneda, p. 2. et feq. »'s I colled that Covilham entered Abyf- J'7 Moors of Barbary, "Western Arabs.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235270440
- ISBN 13 9781235270444
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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