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*[https://archive.org/stream/earlytravelsinin00fostuoft#page/n9/mode/2up ''Early Travels in India, 1583-1619''] edited by William Foster 1921 Archive.org.  Accounts of seven travellers. [https://archive.org/stream/earlytravelsinin00fostuoft#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
*[https://archive.org/stream/earlytravelsinin00fostuoft#page/n9/mode/2up ''Early Travels in India, 1583-1619''] edited by William Foster 1921 Archive.org.  Accounts of seven travellers. [https://archive.org/stream/earlytravelsinin00fostuoft#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9987 ''The First Englishmen in India. Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans...''] by J  Courtenay Locke 1930 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/in.gov.ignca.9987/9987#page/n9/mode/2up Contents]. Part of the series ''The Broadway Travellers''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9987 ''The First Englishmen in India. Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans...''] by J  Courtenay Locke 1930 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/in.gov.ignca.9987/9987#page/n9/mode/2up Contents]. Part of the series ''The Broadway Travellers''.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/533354 ''Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591-1603''] by  William Foster 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533354 Archive.org version],
* ''Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591-1603''  by  William Foster 1940. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533354 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
*[https://archive.org/details/earlytravelsini00linsgoog ''Early Travels in India, being reprints of rare and curious narratives of old travellers in India, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First Series, comprising "Purchas's Pilgrimage" and the "Travels of Van Linschoten"'']. 1864 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/earlytravelsini00linsgoog ''Early Travels in India, being reprints of rare and curious narratives of old travellers in India, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First Series, comprising "Purchas's Pilgrimage" and the "Travels of Van Linschoten"'']. 1864 Archive.org
:''Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others'' by Samuel Purchas 1905 reprint, original 1625 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum02purcuoft Volume II],  [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum02purcuoft#page/vi/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum03purcuoft Volume III], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum03purcuoft#page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum04purc  Volume IV],  [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum04purc#page/n9/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum05purc  Volume V], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum05purc#page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Purchas+His+Pilgrimes&sort=-publicdate&page=1 Other volumes: Archive.org]
:''Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others'' by Samuel Purchas 1905 reprint, original 1625 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum02purcuoft Volume II],  [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum02purcuoft#page/vi/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum03purcuoft Volume III], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum03purcuoft#page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum04purc  Volume IV],  [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum04purc#page/n9/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum05purc  Volume V], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum05purc#page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Purchas+His+Pilgrimes&sort=-publicdate&page=1 Other volumes: Archive.org]
*''The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as narrated in his journal and correspondence''. Edited by William Foster 1899 [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma03roegoog  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma00roegoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as narrated in his journal and correspondence''. Edited by William Foster 1899 [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma03roegoog  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma00roegoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.15313516?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century''] by Sir Thomas Roe and Dr John Fryer. Reprinted from the ''Calcutta Weekly Englishman'' 1873 Hathi Trust  Digital Library. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/22953 Pdf download] Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22953 Archive.org version].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.15313516?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century''] by Sir Thomas Roe and Dr John Fryer. Reprinted from the ''Calcutta Weekly Englishman'' 1873 Hathi Trust  Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22953 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The travels of Pietro della Valle in India : from the old English translation of 1664'', edited by Edward Grey (late Bengal Civil Service) 1892 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/travelsofpietrod00dell Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelspietrode00havegoog Volume II]. Pietro della Valle arrived in India  10 February 1623 at Surat, embarking from Goa  16 November 1624.
*''The travels of Pietro della Valle in India : from the old English translation of 1664'', edited by Edward Grey (late Bengal Civil Service) 1892 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/travelsofpietrod00dell Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelspietrode00havegoog Volume II]. Pietro della Valle arrived in India  10 February 1623 at Surat, embarking from Goa  16 November 1624.
*[https://archive.org/stream/voyagestravellso00olea#page/316/mode/2up ''The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the Embassay) from Persia, into the East-Indies''] page 317, the second part of  ''The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia…'' by Adam Olearius, 2nd edition 1669 (first published 1662) Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/voyagestravellso00olea#page/316/mode/2up ''The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the Embassay) from Persia, into the East-Indies''] page 317, the second part of  ''The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia…'' by Adam Olearius, 2nd edition 1669 (first published 1662) Archive.org
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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fa82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5  ''A ‪voyage to the East-Indies: giving an account of the isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus, and the coast of Brasil, with the religion, manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. as also a Treatise, of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries‬''] by Monsieur Dellon, M.D. Translated from the French. 1698 Google Books . First published in French 1685. [https://archive.org/details/avoyagetoeastin00crulgoog Archive.org version] Same file but different coloured pages may be easier to read.  [https://archive.org/details/nouvellerelatio00marrgoog 1699 French reprint] Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fa82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5  ''A ‪voyage to the East-Indies: giving an account of the isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus, and the coast of Brasil, with the religion, manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. as also a Treatise, of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries‬''] by Monsieur Dellon, M.D. Translated from the French. 1698 Google Books . First published in French 1685. [https://archive.org/details/avoyagetoeastin00crulgoog Archive.org version] Same file but different coloured pages may be easier to read.  [https://archive.org/details/nouvellerelatio00marrgoog 1699 French reprint] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/accountofinquisi00dell ''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 <ref>[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com/2013/04/charles-claude-gabriel-dellon-frenchman.html  "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar"]  14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.</ref>(Damaun)
:[https://archive.org/details/accountofinquisi00dell ''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 <ref>[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com/2013/04/charles-claude-gabriel-dellon-frenchman.html  "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar"]  14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.</ref>(Damaun)
*''The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674''. Tr. from the ms. journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and ed. by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. In three volumes (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd series ; No. 95-97) 1947-48. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/59320  Volume I] '' From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur''... Pdf download Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59320  Archive.org version]. Original title includes alternative spelling ''Abbé Carré''. (Volume II is ''From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thomé. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St. Thomé by De la Haye and of the siege of St. Thomé by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch''. Volume III '' Return journey to France'').Translation of ''Le courier de l'Orient''.  
*''The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674''. Tr. from the ms. journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and ed. by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. In three volumes (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd series ; No. 95-97) 1947-48.   Volume I '' From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur''... [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59320  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Original title includes alternative spelling ''Abbé Carré''. (Volume II is ''From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thomé. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St. Thomé by De la Haye and of the siege of St. Thomé by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch''. Volume III '' Return journey to France'').Translation of ''Le courier de l'Orient''.  
*[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.
*[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. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Archive.org version];  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31953 Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/49506 Volume 3], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506  Archive.org version], Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available.
: 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. Volume 1, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India;  Volume 2, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 3, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506  Archive.org version], mirror 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  
*[https://archive.org/details/indiainseventeen00dasguoft ''India in the seventeenth century, as depicted by European travellers''] by JN Das Gupta 1916 Archive.org  
*[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://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
:[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/11892  ''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 [[Online books|Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]. Restricted download hours may possibly apply. This book is also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format, or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/79805 pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79805 Archive.org version].
:[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/11892  ''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 [[Online books|Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]. Restricted download hours may possibly apply. This book is also available  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79805 Archive.org version], 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.
*''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.
:[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.
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*''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time''‬ by Robert Kerr 1824 editions, first published c 1811. Volumes VI, VII, VIII, IX have the majority of the content relating to India, other volumes listed have less relevant content, (while volumes not listed to do appear to have any relevant content). Google Books, Archive.org, and Hathi Trust Digital Library.  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15 Contents].[https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryco02kerrrich Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/generalhistoryco02kerrrich#page/n5/mode/2up Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VI], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR4 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VIII] 1813 edition  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents],  [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3510755?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume VIII] 1824. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume IX] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents].[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume XI],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol XVII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR7 Contents] (Includes of a voyage including Macao and Canton). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gkg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume XVIII]  A Summary volume titled ''Historical Sketch'' by William Stevenson
*''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time''‬ by Robert Kerr 1824 editions, first published c 1811. Volumes VI, VII, VIII, IX have the majority of the content relating to India, other volumes listed have less relevant content, (while volumes not listed to do appear to have any relevant content). Google Books, Archive.org, and Hathi Trust Digital Library.  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15 Contents].[https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryco02kerrrich Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/generalhistoryco02kerrrich#page/n5/mode/2up Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VI], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR4 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VIII] 1813 edition  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents],  [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3510755?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume VIII] 1824. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume IX] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents].[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume XI],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol XVII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR7 Contents] (Includes of a voyage including Macao and Canton). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gkg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume XVIII]  A Summary volume titled ''Historical Sketch'' by William Stevenson
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024059705 ''Early English Adventurers in the East''] by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024059705 ''Early English Adventurers in the East''] by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org  
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/532468 ''Early English Travellers In India''] by Ram Chandra Prasad 1965. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.532468 Archive,org version].
* ''Early English Travellers In India'' by Ram Chandra Prasad 1965. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.532468 Archive,org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://travel-letters.org/kindersley/ The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley],  transcriptions from the book first published in 1777  ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''. The letters from India commence with  Letter 18 in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Note: Only the first page of the letter is displayed, click on the image for a full transcription. travel-letters.org. This book appears also to be available on "Eighteenth century collections online", for more details see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]]. [Jemima Kindersley,  (1741-1809). Wife of  Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery  and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery.]
*[http://travel-letters.org/kindersley/ The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley],  transcriptions from the book first published in 1777  ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''. The letters from India commence with  Letter 18 in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Note: Only the first page of the letter is displayed, click on the image for a full transcription. travel-letters.org. This book appears also to be available on "Eighteenth century collections online", for more details see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]]. [Jemima Kindersley,  (1741-1809). Wife of  Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery  and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery.]
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jCBhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards''] by John MacDonald, 1790. Google Books. Pages 154-278 cover the time the author (born 1741) spent In India as a servant c late 1760s/early 1770s. Republished in 1927 under the title ''Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald : Travels (1745-1779)''. [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004857217.0001.000  A transcription]  ECCO-TPC umich.edu.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jCBhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards''] by John MacDonald, 1790. Google Books. Pages 154-278 cover the time the author (born 1741) spent In India as a servant c late 1760s/early 1770s. Republished in 1927 under the title ''Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald : Travels (1745-1779)''. [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004857217.0001.000  A transcription]  ECCO-TPC umich.edu.
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**[http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Oriental Repertory, Volume 1''] by Alexander Dalrymple 1793 Archive.org.   
**[http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Oriental Repertory, Volume 1''] by Alexander Dalrymple 1793 Archive.org.   
***[http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n29/mode/2up Table of Contents]; [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n620/mode/1up General Index of Places] including [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n627/mode/1up  List of Synonimes]; [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n627/mode/2up General Index of Things]; [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n629/mode/2up General Index of Persons]
***[http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n29/mode/2up Table of Contents]; [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n620/mode/1up General Index of Places] including [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n627/mode/1up  List of Synonimes]; [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n627/mode/2up General Index of Things]; [http://archive.org/stream/orientalrepertor01dalr#page/n629/mode/2up General Index of Persons]
**''Oriental Repertory, Volume 2'' is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/43814  pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43814 Archive.org version].
**''Oriental Repertory, Volume 2'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43814 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
::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.
::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]]
:For more details of the author, see [[List of Indian Civil Servants]]
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:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005BB42#loaded British Library version with illustrations];  [https://archive.org/details/journalaladystr00dgoog  Archive.org version. Lacks illustrations]
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005BB42#loaded British Library version with illustrations];  [https://archive.org/details/journalaladystr00dgoog  Archive.org version. Lacks illustrations]
*[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/parsonsholidaybe00alle/page/n5 ''A Parson's Holiday : being an account of a tour in India, Burma, and Ceylon, in the winter of 1882-83''] by W Osborn B Allen 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/reconnoitringcen00marv ''Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the region lying between Russia and India''] by  Charles Marvin 3rd edition 1886, first published 1884. Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005AB76 British Library Digital Collection. 1884] with rotatable images.  Each chapter is about a different explorer.
*[https://archive.org/details/reconnoitringcen00marv ''Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the region lying between Russia and India''] by  Charles Marvin 3rd edition 1886, first published 1884. Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005AB76 British Library Digital Collection. 1884] with rotatable images.  Each chapter is about a different explorer.
*[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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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510023550247?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''A Winter in India : light impressions of its cities, peoples, and customs''] by Archibald B. Spens ; with 95 illustrations. 1914. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510023550247?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''A Winter in India : light impressions of its cities, peoples, and customs''] by Archibald B. Spens ; with 95 illustrations. 1914. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by  Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map].  The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by  Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map].  The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210950 ''The Gentleman In The Parlour''] by W Somerset Maugham 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.  Full title: ''The Gentleman in the Parlour : a record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong''. "The story of several trips: One up the Irrawady river to Mandalay in Burma, then a trek across the Shan mountains into what was then Siam, after that down the Mekong to Saigon and up then up coast to Hue in Vietnam".
* ''The Gentleman In The Parlour'' by W Somerset Maugham 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.  Full title: ''The Gentleman in the Parlour : a record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong''. "The story of several trips: One up the Irrawady river to Mandalay in Burma, then a trek across the Shan mountains into what was then Siam, after that down the Mekong to Saigon and up then up coast to Hue in Vietnam".
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version]. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the  granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
* ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the  granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523961 ''India: Land Of The Black Pagoda''] by Lowell Thomas 1931 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523961 ''India: Land Of The Black Pagoda''] by Lowell Thomas 1931 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
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===The Overland Route to and from India===
===The Overland Route to and from India===
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/136186 ''Medieval Routes To India: Baghdad To Delhi''] by  HC Verma 1960. Full title: ''Medieval Routes to India: Baghdad to Delhi. A study of trade and military routes''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136186 Archive.org version].
*  ''Medieval Routes To India: Baghdad To Delhi''] by  HC Verma 1960. Full title: ''Medieval Routes to India: Baghdad to Delhi. A study of trade and military routes''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136186 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his agency in Bengal : as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681-1697)''. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13203 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13242 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/diaryofwilliamhe783hedg Volume III] Archive.org. Transcribed by R Barlow, with additional material by Colonel Henry Yule.  Printed for the Hakluyt Society Volumes 74, 75, 78, 1887-88-89.  
*''The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his agency in Bengal : as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681-1697)''. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13203 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13242 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/diaryofwilliamhe783hedg Volume III] Archive.org. Transcribed by R Barlow, with additional material by Colonel Henry Yule.  Printed for the Hakluyt Society Volumes 74, 75, 78, 1887-88-89.  
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163143/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert"] by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163143/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert"] by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
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*''Overland to India'' by Sven Hedin  1910 [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia01hediuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia02hediuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*''Overland to India'' by Sven Hedin  1910 [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia01hediuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia02hediuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1752 ''Chariots of the Air''] by Harold Keates Hales  1936. Link to a pdf download,  STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Description of an airline trip from England to the East Indies and back. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1752 ''Chariots of the Air''] by Harold Keates Hales  1936. Link to a pdf download,  STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Description of an airline trip from England to the East Indies and back. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/62817 ''The Overland Route From India''] by Stanley Jepson 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version].
* ''The Overland Route From India'' by Stanley Jepson 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
===Bibliography===
===Bibliography===

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Historical books online

Frampton’s 1579 book The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marcus Paulus… was republished in 1929 as The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti, edited by N M Penzer. "The Travels of Nicolò de' Conti in the East" page 124 and Appendix I, page 259 2nd edition 1937 (enlarged). Archive.org
An account of Nicolo de’ Conti is found in Chapters IX and and X of Pero Tafur: Travels and adventures 1435-1439 translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. 1926 from page 84 with Notes page 241 Archive.org
‪India in the Fifteenth Century‬: ‪Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India ... from Latin, Persian, Russian and Italian Sources ... Translated Into English edited by Richard Henry Major 1857. Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Google Books. Also available on Archive.org. The Travels of Abd-Er-Razzak; Nicolo Conti, translated from the original of Poggio Bracciolini, papal secretary, with notes, by J.W. Jones; Athanasius Nikitin, a native of Twer; Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genoese.
Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others by Samuel Purchas 1905 reprint, original 1625 Archive.org. Volume II, Contents. Volume III, Contents. Volume IV, Contents. Volume V, Contents. Other volumes: Archive.org
A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, not printed among his first six voyages 1680 Archive.org
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)
  • The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674. Tr. from the ms. journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and ed. by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. In three volumes (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd series ; No. 95-97) 1947-48. Volume I From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur... Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Original title includes alternative spelling Abbé Carré. (Volume II is From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thomé. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St. Thomé by De la Haye and of the siege of St. Thomé by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch. Volume III Return journey to France).Translation of Le courier de l'Orient.
  • 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. 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. Volume 1, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 2, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 3, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Additional digital files may be available.
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 Archive.org version, 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 Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV. Archive.org.
A Pepys of Mongul India, 1653-1708 : being an abridged edition of the "Storia do Mogor" of Niccolao Manucci 1913 Archive.org.
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
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Google Books
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. [2] There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. Article about the book by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902 by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Also see Iran for another book by this author.
British Library version with illustrations; Archive.org version. Lacks illustrations
Across The Highways Of The World by K J Kharas, R D Gandhi, R D Shroff. Second edition 1941, first published 1939. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.

The Overland Route to and from India

  • Medieval Routes To India: Baghdad To Delhi] by HC Verma 1960. Full title: Medieval Routes to India: Baghdad to Delhi. A study of trade and military routes. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his agency in Bengal : as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681-1697). Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Archive.org. Transcribed by R Barlow, with additional material by Colonel Henry Yule. Printed for the Hakluyt Society Volumes 74, 75, 78, 1887-88-89.
  • “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert" by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from The Desert Route to India by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
“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. Full title: The Desert Route to India : being the journals of four travellers by the great desert caravan route between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751. This book is available on Archive.org where, for ease of reading, a djvu or (Bit)Torrent plug-in may be required. Accounts by William Beawes, Gayland Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, John Carmichael.

Bibliography

Volume Two: The New World 1950/1938. Note: missing at least pages 417-428 “Military Expeditions”. (Volume Three: Great Britain) Archive.org.

References

  1. "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar" 14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.
  2. Snippet Search result from ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books
  3. Book review Sunday Times (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947 trove.nla.gov.au