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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69916	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 : as also A treatise of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries : to which is annexed an abstract of Monsieur de Rennefort's History of the East-Indies, with his propositions for the improvement of the East-India Company / written originally in French by Mr. Dellon ...; Relation d'un voyage des Indes Orientales. English	Dellon, Gabriel, b. 1649.; M. C. Treatise of the distempers relating in particular to the eastern countries.; Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?; Rennefort, Souchu de, ca. 1630-ca. 1690. Histoire des Indes orientales. English. Selections.; Dellon, Gabriel, b. 1649. Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux et dans la route et de leurs remèdes. English.	1698 (1698)	Wing D943A; ESTC R22348	179,184	326

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 Customs Trade c. Of the Inhabitants as also a Treatise of the Distempers peculiar to the Eastern Countries To which is Annexed an Abstract of Monsieur de Rennefort's History of the East-Indies with his Propositions for the improvement of the East-India Company Written Originally in French By Mr. DELLON M. D. LONDON Printed for D. Browne at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar A. Roper at the Black-Boy and T. Leigh at the Peacock both in Fleet-Street 1698. TO THE WORTHY Samuel Sheppard Esq SHERIFF Elect for the CITY of LONDON And COUNTY of MIDDLESEX SIR when I saw so considerable a part of the Nation join'd in the design of settling the East-India Trade upon a new Foundation I thought I could scarce pitch upon a more seasonable juncture than this to make my Authors appear in England to give us an account of their ten Years Transactions among the same Nations where in all probability our Indian Trade is to be carried on to the Honour and Advantage of the English Nation I will not pretend to enlarge my self here upon the usefulness of Commerce in General or of that of the Indies in Particular if the station I am in did not excuse me from undertaking that task the universal consent of all civilized Nations who look upon traffick as one of the main Pillars of the prosperity of the Common-Wealth is a demonstration sufficient to over-balance any thing that can be said upon so ample a subject by a private hand And as to what relates to the Indian Trade in particular our Neighbours the Dutch who have made it the foundation stone of the present flourishing State of their Common-wealth are living instances to convince us what improvements may be made in this kind if managed by a dextrous hand I might in this place have made some Reflections perhaps not altogether useless upon the present condition of some of the Indian Countries especially upon those on the Coast of Malabar who being divided into so many petty Principalities and for the most part Situated very convenient for Traffick seem to invite us to be sharers with them in the vast advantages the East-India Trade affords But when I considered with my self the extraordinary ability of the Person unto whom I was making my addresses and on the other hand what slender share of experience I had in these affairs I was not without reason afraid I should run my self into the same Error a certain ancient Grecian Philosopher did who being Honoured with a Visit by that renown'd African Warriour Hannibal entertain'd him with a very long and tedious lesson concerning the duty of a General I will ingenuously confess it was chiefly upon the score of your Merits and the reputation you have so deservedly acquired in the management of an affair of the utmost consequence to the Glory and Advantage of the English Nation that when these Indian Travellers after their return home from a long and most dangerous Voyage were to make their appearance among us I judg'd I could not recommend them to the protection of any other person than your self who both for your Ability and Zeal have given such ample demonstrations to the World in what relates to the affairs of the East-Indies that as your Judgment by the consent of all sides is unquestionable so these Travellers have all the reason imaginable to promise themselves due Encouragement from your generous inclinations Before I conclude I cannot pass by in silence and apply with some small alterations here the words Mr. Rennefort makes use of in respect of the French East-India Company that since our present East-India Company is established by the consent of the representatives of the whole Nation under the protection of his present Majesty who by his most Glorious Actions has made himself both Admired and Redoubted in far distant Countries we have all the reason to hope that under the Direction of such Persons who have an equal share of Experience Conduct and Honour they may in time at least equalize if not out-vie the rest of the European Nations that have established themselves in the East-Indies Which is the hearty wish of him who subscribes himself Sir Your Humble Servant J. C. Med. D. THE PREEACE TO THE READER THE ensuing Treatise falling by chance into my hands after a full perusal of it I thought it highly worth my care of making it appear in the World under an English Garb at a time when our Nation has a very near concern in Foreign Affairs and its Genius seems more than ever bent upon the improvement of its Knowledge in relation to Foreign Countries I lay this down as a general meaning which I suppose few will contradict that as those who want the conveniency of satisfying their curiosity by travelling abroad themselves especially in far distant Countries cannot in any way better supply this defect than by applying themselves to such Authors as by a long experience having had the opportunity of informing themselves concerning the true constitution of these-Countries are in all probability the most proper Persons to answer their end as having at their own expence endeavoured to improve the general knowledge of Mankind It cannot be denied but that in our time there have appeared more Books of this kind abroad than perhaps all the Ages before us can produce and that the French in particular have been more liberal in furnishing us with the Relations of their Travels than any other Nation But not to deviate from the truth it must be also confess'd That as to what relates to their Voyages to the Indies they are for the most part confin'd to the Description of some particular Country or other whereas the ensuing Treatise gives a view of a great part of that vast Country comprehended under the Name of the East-Indies It may also be observed that many of our Modern Authors in their Descriptions of these far distant Countries have affected a way of surprising rather than instructing their Readers they represent both the Climate of the Indies and its products as the effects of a quite different if not contrary principle of Nature from what we find in our parts whereas it may be sufficiently evident to all such as will consider the whole without prejudice that Nature performs its operations in all parts of the World according to its primitive Fundamental Laws that the Heats and Colds of these several Climates differ only in degrees and that the Monsters of Africa or the Indies are no more surprising to the Inhabitants of these parts than the Beasts that are commonly seen and bred among us are to the Europeans Most of these Authors seem to have been seized with an itch of pleasing their Readers and of creating in them an Opinion of their own more than ordinary Ability