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*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Includes Bombaim [Bombay], Surat. Goa. Includes, facing p114 drawings of the Areca Nut or Betele nut, and other plants. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CrYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 Google Books edition] which appears to contain some, but not all illustrations.
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506 Volume 3] Archive.org, mirrors from Digital Library of India. Additional digital files may be available.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiainseventeen00dasguoft ''India in the seventeenth century, as depicted by European travellers''] by JN Das Gupta 1916 Archive.org * ''The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts Viz. Into. I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies'' by Jean de Thévenot [1633-1667], published 1687. [https://archive.org/details/travelsofmonsieu00thev/page/n7/mode/2up File 1], [https://archive.org/details/travelsofmonsieu00thev/page/200/mode/2up File 1, "The Third Part"]; [https://archive.org/details/b30325870/page/n11/mode/2up File 2] [https://archive.org/details/b30325870/page/200/mode/2up File 2, "The Third Part"] Archive.org:[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A64495.0001.001 Transcribed version] lib.umich.edu:''Indian Records Series. Indian travels of Thevenot and Careri : being the third part of the travels of Jean de Thevenot into the Levant and the third part of a voyage round the world by John Francis Gemelli Careri'' edited by Surendranath Sen 1949. Contains many Notes at the back of the book. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210583/page/n7/mode/2up 1949 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indiantravelsoft0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up Reprint edition 2011] Archive.org :[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Thévenot Jean de Thévenot] 1633-1667 Wikipedia.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NmpCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 ''A Voyage to Suratt: In the Year, 1689''] by John Ovington. Chaplain to his Majesty. 1696 Google Books
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79805 ''A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689''] by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''Storia do Mogor; or, Mogul India 1653-1708'' by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian, translated by William Irvine, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1907. Part of ''Indian Texts Series'' [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm01manuuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm02manuuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm03manuuoft Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm04manu Volume IV]. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/pepysofmongulind00manurich ''A Pepys of Mongul India, 1653-1708 : being an abridged edition of the "Storia do Mogor" of Niccolao Manucci''] 1913 Archive.org.
*''A Collection of Voyages and Travels: Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts... : Volume IV'' which contains ''A Voyage round the World in Six parts viz, Turky; Persia; India; China; the Philippine Islands; New Spain'' by Dr John Francis Gemelli Careri Written originally in Italian, translated into English. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1-kCbJr5ImEC&pg=PR3 1704 edition] including [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1-kCbJr5ImEC&pg=PA256 "Part III Indostan"], page 256 Google Books. The author was in India in 1695. [https://archive.org/details/b30455042_0004/page/n5/mode/2up Third edition, 1744] including [https://archive.org/details/b30455042_0004/page/186/mode/2up "Part III Indostan"] page 186. Archive.org. Note: missing first page of the Preface.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210583/page/n263/mode/2up ''Indian Travels of Careri''] c page 154 ''Indian Records Series. Indian travels of Thevenot and Careri : being the third part of the travels of Jean de Thevenot into the Levant and the third part of a voyage round the world by John Francis Gemelli Careri'' edited by Surendranath Sen 1949. Archive.org.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Francesco_Gemelli_Careri Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri] Wikipedia.
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:175 ''A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East Indies : with a description of the said island … Also a description of the islands of Canary, Cape Verd, Java, Madura; of the streights of Bally, the Cape of Good Hope, the Hottentots, the island of St. Helena, Ascension etc''] by Captain Daniel Beeckman 1718. The first chapter states he was in the service of the East India Company. He sailed from England October 1713. South East Asia Visions Cornell University Library. Note, digital file may be very slow to open.
*''A New Account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon'' 1727 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1ombp1gBqKsC&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YCoCwtJd1gC&pg=PP5 Volume II] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39274 Modern reprint of Volume I, 1739 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39275 Modern reprint of Volume II 1739 edition], both Archive.org, from Digital Library of India
