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*''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.
*''Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668'' by Francois Bernier. 1826 edition, translated by Irving Brock [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fsTlcjAJC9kC&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D7oRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6093710_000 1891 edition], revised by Archibald Constable. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinmogulem00bernuoft 1916 edition], revised by Vincent A Smith. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ageographicalac00bowrgoog ''A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679''] by Thomas Bowrey. Edited by Lt-Col Sir Richard Carnac Temple 1905. Printed for the Hakluyt Society (Second Series, No 12)) Archive.org. With illustrations. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn4xkq?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library version], where it is possible to rotate the Plates.
*[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)
