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*[https://archive.org/details/furtherindia00clif ''Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China'']  by Hugh Clifford 1904 with [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n472/mode/1up Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India] and [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n473/mode/2up Index] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/furtherindia00clif ''Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China'']  by Hugh Clifford 1904 with [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n472/mode/1up Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India] and [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n473/mode/2up Index] Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat''] [http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Edited by George W. Forrest, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. 1906 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat''] [http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Edited by George W. Forrest, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. 1906 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ‪''The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras''‬] by Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel 1832 Google Books
*''Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes'' ‬ by Major Archer, late Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere 1833 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PF5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hzxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
*''Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes'' ‬ by Major Archer, late Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere 1833 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PF5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hzxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
*[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

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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