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OF BANDAN.
ISLANDS OF MALUCO, WHICH ARE FIVE.
ACCOUNT OF OTHER RUBIES OF CEYLON.
ACCOUNT OF THE BALASSES, WHERE THEY GROW AND WHAT THEY ARE WORTH IN CALICUT.
ACCOUNT OF THE DIAMONDS OF THE OLD MINE.
ACCOUNT OF THE TOPAZES AND OF THEIR PRICES IN CALICUT.
ACCOUNT OF THE TURQUOISES, AND OF THEIR PRICES IN MALABAR.
ACCOUNT OF THE DRUGS AND SPICES IN CALICUT AND ALL THE MALABAR COUNTRY.
ACCOUNT OF THE WEIGHTS OF PORTUGAL AND OF THE INDIES .
NOTE TO DESCRIPTION OF PRECIOUS STONES.
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Note to Thirty-fifth Publication of the Hakluyt Society,
"Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar."
This volume was published by the Hakluyt Society as the work of Duarte Barbosa on the authority of Ramusio, for neither the three Spanish MSS. of Barcelona and Munich, nor the Portuguese MS., give his name; it is probable that Barbosa contributed a largo part of it, for Damian de Goes refers his readers for an account of Malabar and its religion and customs to a book by Duarte Barbosa, who is stated to have spoken the language