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The Embassy of Sir Thomas 1loe—
By William Fostor (Hakluyt Society’s Edition).
Purchas* His Pi/grimes.—
Volumo I, Journal of the Journey of Richard Steel and John Crowhher from
Ajmerc to Ispahan, pages 519—524.
Volumo II, Cbaptor X, Monox’s journal of the Seigo of Ormuz, 1622 and Wilson
tho Cberurgion’s Account of the 6aine.
Fryer’s Now Account of the East Indies (first published on 1698, see recent Hakluyt
Sooiety’s edition by Arthur Pringle).
[ Read especially Chapter XII, which contains an account of the capture of Ormuz.3
Some years* Travels —
By Sir Thomas Herbert, who accompanied Sir Dodmore Cotton’s Embassy to Shah
Abbas, 1627—1628.
[Read especially pages 111—125 about Bandar Abbas, etc. ]
ravels into the East Indies—
By Peter Della Valle about 1628—1625 (first published in 1625), see recent
Hakluyt Society’s edition,
[ Read Chapters IX and X about tho Persian Gulf. ]
Travels into the Indies—
By Mandelso (about 1638).
[ See especially pages 11, el seq. ]
Persian Travels—
By Tavernier about 1668.
[ Read especially fifth book.]
Low's History of the Indian Navy, 1877—
[ Chapter I.—First appearance of the Company in the Persian Gulf, capture of
Ormuz in 1622. Low’s Account of the Affair is full, based upon all the
available sources.
Chapter V.—Affairs in the Persian Gulf—The Dutch at Karrak, operations against
Meer Mohana, 1768, Basrah Affairs, 1774—1775.]
The Travels—
Of Sic John Chardin into Persia cDmmencing from 1071 (published on 1691).
A description of Persia—
(Colleoted from Herbert, Chardin, Tavernier, Thevenot, Le Brun and others)—
printed in Pinkerton’s Travels and Foyages, Volume X (date not clear, written
after Nadir Shah’s reign).
New Account of the East Indies—
By Captain Alexander Hamilton, who served in the East Indies between the years
1688—1723.
A Toyage from England to India—
By E. Ives, from 1754 to 1769 (published in 1773).
[ Read pages 198 to 240, which contain an interesting account about the Persian,
Gombroon and Basrah affairs of the timo, the establishment of the Dutch at
Karrak, tho characters that played important parts at the time. ]
