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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel  Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel  Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*[https://archive.org/details/junglelifeinindi00balluoft ''Jungle Life in India : or, The Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist''] by V Ball Geological Survey of India 1880 Archive.org 
*[https://archive.org/details/inhimalayasando00cummgoog ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with [https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n20/mode/2up Illustrations] 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
*[https://archive.org/details/inhimalayasando00cummgoog ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with [https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n20/mode/2up Illustrations] 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromcavesjungles00blavuoft ''From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan'']  Translated from the Russian of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Reprinted 1908 (originally published 1892) Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromcavesjungles00blavuoft ''From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan'']  Translated from the Russian of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Reprinted 1908 (originally published 1892) Archive.org

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Historical books online

An Account of the Inquisition at Goa, in India. Translated from the French of M. Dellon 1819 Archive.org. Translated from a copy printed in Paris in 1687. The events happened in 1674. Dellon, a physician spent some time in North Malabar and was operating out of the French factory in Tellicherry for five years after which he left the French services. Six months later, he was in jail In Daman [1](Damaun)
A Voyage To Surat In The Year 1689 by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929 is available to download as a pdf from Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL]. Restricted download hours may possibly apply. This book is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, in TIFF format, or as a pdf download.
Table of Contents, computer pages 28-31;General index of Persons commencing part O-Z computer pages 632-633;General Index of Things A-Z computer pages 634-637
For more details of the author, see List of Indian Civil Servants

The Overland Route to and from India

“Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748” by Gaylard Roberts from The Desert Route to India by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
Sample pages from The Desert Route to India edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books

References