Travel Knowledge European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period EDITED BY IVO KAMPS JYOTSNA SINGH Travel Knowledge This page intentionally left blank Travel Knowledge European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period Edited by Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna G. Singh Palgrave TRAVEL KNOWLEDGE Copyright © Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna G. Singh, 2001. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001 978-0-312-22270-3 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any man ner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2001 by PALGRAVE™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE™ is the new global publishing imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmil lan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-62235-1 ISBN 978-1-349-62233-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-62233-7 ISBN 978-0-312-22299-4 (paperback) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at the Library of Congress A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Westchester Book Composition First edition: January, 2001 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Note on Organization lX Acknowledgements Xl Introduction 1 List if Suggested Readings 17 PART I: TRAVELERS INTO THE LEVANT Section One Compiled and Edited by Daniel J Vitkus Primary Materials: -George Sandys-Excerpt from A Relation 23 if a journey begun An. Dom. 1610 (1615) -William Lithgow-Excerpt from To tall Discourse 28 if the Rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Travayles,Jrom Scotland, to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica (1632) Essay: -Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the 35 Ottoman Empire during the Early Seventeenth Century J Daniel Vitkus Section Two Compiled and Edited by Mary C. Fuller Primary Materials: -Thomas Dallam's-Excerpts from his diary 53 (British Museum, Additional MS. 17 ,480) -john Rawlins-Excerpts from The famous and 60 wondeifull recoverie of a ship if Bristoll (1622). Essay: -English Turks and Resistant Travelers: Conversion to Islam 66 and Homosocial Courtship Mary C. Fuller vi Contents Section Three Compiled and Edited by Gerald MacLean Primary Materials: -Bishop Henry King--"To my Noble and Judicious 75 Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage. " -Henry Blount-A Voyage into the Levant (1636) 79 Essay: -Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises 85 Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant Gerald MacLean Section Four Compiled and Edited by Rebecca Chung Primary Materials: -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu-Selected Letters 97 Essay: -A Woman Triumphs: From Travels if an 110 English Lady in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1763) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Rebecca Chung PART II: TRAVELERS TO INDIA Section Five Complied and Edited by Shankar Raman Primary Materials: -Fernao Lopes de Castanheda--Excerpts from Hist6ria 127 do descobrimento e conquista da india pelos Portugueses. 1582 English translation by Nicholas Lichefield, published as The First Book if the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest if the East Indias -Luis Vaz de Camoes-Excerpts from Os Lusfadas (1572) 129 (Translated by Leonard Bacon as The Lusiads) -Abraham Ortelius-Excerpt from Theatrum Orbis 132 Terrarum (1570) (Translated by John Norton) Essay: -Back to the Future: Forging History in Luis de 134 Camoes's Os Lusfadas Shankar Raman Section Six Compiled and Edited by Ivo Kamps Primary Materials: -jan Huyghen van Linschoten-Excerpts from Itinerario. 149 The Voyage ifJ an Huygen van Linschoten to the East Indies (1598) (Translated by William Phillip [?]) Essay: -Colonizing the Colonizer: A Dutchman in 160 Asia Portuguesa Ivo Kamps Contents Vlt Section Seven Compiled and Edited by ]yotsna G. Singh Primary Materials: -Edward Terry--Excerpts from A Voyage to East-India 185 (1665 reprint) included in the folio volume entitled The Travels if Pietro Della Valle into East India and Arabia deserta, Whereunto is Added A Relation if Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage unto the East Indies (1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649) Essay: -History or Colonial Ethnography? The Ideological 197 Formation of Edward Terry's A Voyage to East India (1655 & 1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649) Jyotsna G. Singh PART III: TRAVEL TO AFRICA Section Eight Compiled and Edited by Gary Taylor Primary Materials: -Excerpts from the journals ofJ ohn Hearne and 211 William Finch, merchants, aboard The Red Dragon in 1607, en route from England to India on the third voyage of the East India Company, commanded by William Keeling Essay: -Hamlet in Africa 1607 223 Gary Taylor Section Nine Complied and Edited by Oumelbanine Zhiri Primary Materials: -Leo Mricanus-Excerpts from Description if4 frica (1550) 249 Essay: -Leo Africanus's Description ifA frica 258 Oumelbanine Zhiri Note on Contributors 267 fu~ U9 This page intentionally left blank NOTE ON ORGANIZATION Travel Knowledge is divided into nine sections consisting of primary material fol lowed by an essay. Each contributor selected, edited, and in some cases anno tated their primary material. All the notes from contributors within primary material sections appear in italics.