Sir Richard Burn - The Travels of the Abbé Carré in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674

The Travels of the Abb Carr
in India and the Near East,
1672 to 1674

Volume I. From France through Syria, Iraq and the
Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur,
with an account of his grave illness

Edited by

SIR CHARLES FAWCETT with SIR RICHARD BURN

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THE TRAVELS OF THE ABB CARR
IN INDIA AND THE NEAR EAST

1672 TO 1674

SECOND SERIES
No. XCV

ISSUED FOR 1947

COUNCIL AND OFFICERS

OF

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

1946

EDWARD LYNAM, ESQ., D.LITT., M.R.I.A., F.S.A., President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLBY, K.G., P.C., Vice-President

EDWARD HBAWOOD, ESQ., M.A., Vice-President.

PROFESSOR E. G. R. TAYLOR, D.Sc, Vice-President.

SIR RICHARD BURN, C.S.L

A. HUGH CARRINGTON, ESQ.

G. R. CRONE, ESQ.

PROFESSOR F. DEBENHAM, O.B.E.

SIR WILLIAM FOSTER, CLE.

E. W. GILBERT, ESQ.

SIR GILBERT LAITHWAITE, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.

SIR HARRY C. LUKE, K.C.M.G., D.LITT., LL.D.

FRANK B. MAGGS, ESQ.

WALTER OAKESHOTT, ESQ.

PROFESSOR E. PRESTAGE, D.LITT.

ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY (JAMES PACKMAN, ESQ.).

J. A. STEERS, ESQ.

R. A. WILSON, ESQ.

J. N. L. BAKER, ESQ., Treasurer.

R. A. SKELTON, ESQ., Hon. Secretary (BRITISH MUSEUM, W.C. I).

W. M. WHITEHILL, ESQ., PH.D., F.S.A., Hon. Secretary for U.S.A. (BOSTON ATHENAEUM, BOSTON, MASS.).

C. H. M. TAYLOR, ESQ., Hon Secretary for New Zealand (ALEXANDER TURN-BULL LIBRARY, WELLINGTON, N.Z.).

END OF CARRES AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO COLBERTReduced from the original in Paris

END OF CARRS AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO COLBERT
Reduced from the original in Paris

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PREFACE

IN editing this work we have had much generous assistance, some of which is acknowledged in notes to the text, but we wish also to record our appreciation here. We are indebted to the authorities of the Bodleian Library, its subsidiaries (especially the Indian Institute), theTaylor Institution, and the India Office Library, for the use of books which have helped us in our editorial work. With the permission of the Superintendent of Records, Mr. R. W. Wright, M.B.E., the records of the East India Company for 167077 have also been utilised for notes, especially in the second volume. Sir William Foster, C.I.E., has very kindly placed at our disposal his unrivalled knowledge of this period, and supplied useful criticism and suggestions. Sir Geoffrey Callender, the Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, has given us similar valuable help over the nautical part of the Journal. Others who have assisted us with information on various points are L. D. Barnett, C.B., Litt.D., F.B.A.; H. A. R. Gibb, F.B.A., Laudian Professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford; A. S. Tritton, Professor of Arabic in the University of London; G. Rudler, Dr. s Lettres, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford; Mr. L. G. Carr Laughton, acting Librarian at the Admiralty; Sir Aubrey Metcalfe, K.C.I.E.; Sir Sitaram Patkar of Bombay; Sir Frederick Sayers, C.I.E.; Messrs. R. E. Enthoven, C.I.E., C. A. Kincaid, C.V.O., and C. N. Seddon; Dr. A. Kunst; Father Hislop of Blackfriars, Oxford; and Father Romanus Rios of St. Augustines Abbey, Ramsgate. Professor (Col.) Mason, M.C., Director of the Oxford School of Geography, has very kindly lent us maps of Syria and Iraq, and helped us in the preparation of the maps for those parts and the Persian Gulf. The Bibliothque Nationale has given valuable cooperation by sending photographs taken from three of Carrs manuscripts in Paris, and the report of M. Roger Herv, mentioned on of this volume; as well as to the Librairie Plon at Paris for allowing us in the second volume to adapt their reproduction of Carons map of 1672, showing the French occupation of the Bay of Trincomalee. And finally we wish to express our thanks to the Secretary of State for India (the owner of the copyright in the Abbs Journal) for the loan of the manuscript and permission to publish this work, as well as to the translator for having laid the foundation for it in such a readable form.

July, 1946.

C. F.
R.B.

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