The book of Duarte Barbosa. An account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants, written by Duarte Barbosa, and completed about the year 1518 A.D. Translated from Portuguese, first published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisboa, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the seas, and edited and annotated by Mansel Longworth Dames. Vol. I Including the coast of East Africa, Arabia, Persia, and Western India as far as the Kingdom of Vijayanagar. Vol. II, including the coast of Malabar, Eastern India, further India, China and the Indian Archipielago