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... published in 1708 , though the third was not published till nearly fifty years later , when Dr. Long , the Master of Pembroke , had added to it a life of Mahomet . Ockley was a link in the tradition of Arabic scholarship which was ...
... published in 1708 , though the third was not published till nearly fifty years later , when Dr. Long , the Master of Pembroke , had added to it a life of Mahomet . Ockley was a link in the tradition of Arabic scholarship which was ...
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... published an account of his adven- turous journey with very valuable remarks on what he had seen in 1619. Tavernier was the next traveller of importance to visit India ; he made six journeys to the east , beginning in 1631 with Persia ...
... published an account of his adven- turous journey with very valuable remarks on what he had seen in 1619. Tavernier was the next traveller of importance to visit India ; he made six journeys to the east , beginning in 1631 with Persia ...
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Robert Sencourt. at Surat ; he published a thorough and dependable account of India in 1686 , a year after his namesake Melchisedech Thevenot had published his Relation des Divers Voyages . Thevenot's work , wrote one student of India in ...
Robert Sencourt. at Surat ; he published a thorough and dependable account of India in 1686 , a year after his namesake Melchisedech Thevenot had published his Relation des Divers Voyages . Thevenot's work , wrote one student of India in ...
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