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*''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
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*[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.
*''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
*[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.
*''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/details/sixvoyagesofjohn00tave_0 ''The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670''...] 1678 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/ACollectionOfSeveralRelationsTreatisesSingularAndCuriousOfJohn ''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
*''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://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 Probably Volume I]. Pdf download Digital Library of India. Original title includes alternative spelling ''Abbé Carré''
*[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], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31953 Volume 2], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/49506 Volume 3] Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiainseventeen00dasguoft ''India in the seventeenth century, as depicted by European travellers''] by JN Das Gupta 1916 Archive.org
