File AvailableStevens, R. 1766 The complete guide to the East-India trade. London, Stevens, pp. i-viii, 1-157
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Champion, A. 1765 Journal. London, India Office Library, Home Miscellaneous Series 198: 293-294
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p.148 Journal of Col. Alexander Champion (d.1823), 17 December 1765. H.M., vol. 198, pp. 293-294, India Office Library, London: Colonel Champion Papers, Home Miscellaneous Series, vol. 198 -
finally there was as crowning spectacle a fight between an elephant, which ran amok and a rhinocerous,...
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File AvailableMartin, B. 1764 A new and comprehensive system of philology; or, a treatise of the literary arts and sciences, according to their present state. Londo, W.Owen, pp. 1-670
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File AvailableMartin, B. 1764 The geographical and natural history of Hindustan, or the Empire of the Great Mogul: pp. 441-454

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File AvailableSmart, C.; Goldsmith, O. 1760 A new history of the East-Indies: pp. 1-98

In: Smart, C. et al. The world displayed; or, a collection of voyages and travels. London, J.Newbery and J.Hoey: vol. 16, pp. 1-207
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File AvailableRamayana 1760 Demoness Taraka terrifying wild animals in the Forest, 1760-1780. Page sold at Pundole's Auction, Mumbai 2021 January 21: Lot 4 (page 1)
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File AvailableAnonymous 1750 The wonders of nature and art; being an account of whatever is most curious and remarkable throughout the world. London, Samuel Birt, C.Corbett, J.Newbery, C.Micklewright, pp. 1-482
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File AvailableNelson, G. 1740 The wonders of nature throughout the world display'd both for diversion and instruction. London, J.Watts, pp. i-viii, 1-475
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There is the Rhinoceros in the River Ganges, near as big as an Elephant, saving that he is not so tall; his Horn is upon the Snout near a Yard long. He fights with an Elephant, and sometimes overcomes him. His Horn, Teeth and Claws, are used against Poison and many Diseases, and sold at ...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1739 Historical chronicle: hurricaine in the Bay of bengal on 30 september 1738. Gentleman's Magazine, London 8: 321
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Historical chronicle. On September 30 last [1737] happened a furious hurricaine in the Bay of Bengal, attended with a very heavy rain, which raised 15 inches of water in 5 hours, and a violent earthquake, which threw down abundance of houses. A prodigious number of cattle of all sorts, a great ma...
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File AvailableBerkenmeyer, P.L. 1729 Le curieux antiquaire, ou recueil géographique et historique des choses les plus remarquables qu'on trouve dans les quatre Parties de l'Univers, vol. 3. Leiden
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File AvailablePetis de la Croix, F. 1723 Histoire de Timur Bec. Delft, Reinier Boitet, vol. 3, pp. 1-422
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File AvailablePetis de la Croix, F. 1723 The history of Timur-Bec, known by the name of Tamerlain the Great, emperor of the Moguls and Tartars. London, J.Darby, E.Bell, W.Taylor and others, vol. 2, pp. 1-451
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1707 Tweede reys van kapiteyn Walter Peyton, na Oost-Indien, met het schip de Expeditie, uytgerust van de Engelse Oost-Indise Maatschappy, neffens de Draak, de Leeuw en de Peper-com, in het jaar 1615. Als mede de reys van Thomas Coryat, na Asmere, zijnde de hof-stad van den Grooten Mogol, van Jerusalem, na derwaards door hem met een caravaan ondernoomen, in het jaar 1615. Briefs-wijse opgesteld, en aan sijnen vriend Mr. L. Whitaker gesonden. In: De wijd-beroemde voyagien na Oost- en West-Indien, mitsgaders andere gedeeltens des werelds, gedaan door de Engelsen. Leyden: van der Aa, vol. 2
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File AvailableHerbert, T. 1705 Sir Thomas Herbert's travels from England to Goa in the East-Indies: vol. 1, pp. 404-410

In: Harris, J. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. London, Thomas Bennet: vol. 1
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File AvailableBernier, F. 1699 Voyages, contenant la description des etats du Grand Mogol, de l'Hindoustan, du Royaume de Kachimire, &c. Amsterdam, Paul Marret, vol. 1, pp. 1-358
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File AvailableFryer, J. 1698 A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1682. London, Ri. Chiswell, pp. i-viii, i-xiv, 1-427, i-xxiv
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1698 – Fryer, New account of East-India and Persia

John Fryer, ca.1650-1733
Physician from Cambridge. FRS.

1698 A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681. Containing observations made of the moral, natural, a...
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File AvailableCosmas Indicopleustes 1696 Christian topography [in Greek]: part 1

In: Thevenot, M. Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point este publiees. Nouvelle Edition. Paris, Thomas Moette
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File AvailableTerry, E. 1696 Voyage aux Indes Orientales

In: Thevenot, M. Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point este publiees. Nouvelle Edition. Paris, Thomas Moette
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File AvailableRennefort, U. Souchu de 1688 Histoire des Indes Orientales. Paris, Arnould Seneuze et Daniel Horthemels, pp. i-xvi, 1-402
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File AvailableDellon, G. 1688 Relation de l'inquisation de Goa. Paris, Daniel Horthemels, pp. 1-251
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File AvailableBoussingault, A. 1681 Le nouveau theatre du monde, ou l'abrege des etats et empires de l'univers. Nouvelle edition. Part 3: L'Asie. Paris, Estienne Loyson
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File AvailableTavernier, J.B. 1678 The six voyages, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670. London, John Starkey and Moses Pitt, 4 parts
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File AvailableTavernier, J.B. 1677 The six voyages, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies. London, Robert Littlebury, pp. 1-662
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File AvailableTavernier, J.B. 1676 Les six voyages qu'il a fait en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes. Seconde partie. Paris, Gervais Clouzier et Claude Barbin, pp. 1-527
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File AvailableBernier, F. 1671 Suite des memoires sur l'empire du Grand Mogol. Paris, Claude Barbin
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File AvailablePyrard, F. de Laval 1669 Voyage, contenant sa navigation aux Indes Orientales, Maldives, Moluques, Bresil. Nouvelle edition. Paris, Louis Billaine
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File AvailableTerry, E. 1655 A voyage to East India. London, J.Martin and J.Alledrye, pp. i-xxiv, 1-545
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File AvailableBruton, W. 1638 Newes from the East-Indies; or, a voyage to Bengalla, one of the greatest kingdomes under the high and mighty prince Pedesha Shassallem, usually called the Great Mogull. London, I. Okes, pp. 1-35
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File AvailableHerbert, T. 1634 A relation of four years travaile, begunne anno 1626, into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian Monarchie: and some parts of the Orientall Indies and iles adjacent. London, [no publisher]
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File AvailableFinch, W. 1625 Travels in India: vol. 1, pp. 414-440

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File AvailableTerry, E. 1625 Travels in India: vol. 2, pp. 1464-1482

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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1625 A letter of Mr Thomas Coryat, which travailed by land from Jerusalem to the court of the Great Mogol, written to Mr L Whitaker: vol. 1, pp. 592-602

In: Purchas, S. Purchas his pilgrimage, or relations of the world. London, Henrie Fetherstone: vols. 1-4
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1616 Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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(Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither out of the countrie of Bengala, ...
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1616 Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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(Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither out of the countrie of Bengala, ...
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1616 Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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[Full text in original language] (Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither...
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File AvailableJarric, P.du 1614 Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes orientales, vol. 3: Troisiesme partie de l'Histoire des choses plus memorables despuis l'an 1600, jusques a 1610. Bovrdeaus, Simon Millanges
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rhino in Bengal onp.833
In 1599, a mission of Portuguese Jesuit priests traveled to the kingdom of Maharaja Pratapaditya (1561-1611), who had his capital in the Jessore region. Melchior Fonseca reported that even then deer and monkeys were retreating away from civilised areas, but the forests ...
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File AvailableMagini, G.A. 1605 Histoire universelle des Indes Orientales et Occidentales divisees en deux livres. Livre Second de l'Histoire universelle des Indes. Douay, Francois Fabre, pp. 1, 1-128, 1-152, 1-8
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File AvailableWebbe, E. 1592 The rare and most wonderful thinges which Edward Webbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome travailes.. London, William Barley, pp. 1-30
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File AvailableAbul Fazl-i-Allami, Akbar 1590 Ain-i-Akbari

In: Jarrett, H.S. Ain-i-Akbari of Abul Fazl-i-Allami, vol. 2: A gazetteer and administrative manual of Akbar. Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal
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File AvailableMaffei, G.P. 1590 Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV. Coloniae Agrippinae, Birckmannica, pp. 1-763, 1-462
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File AvailableBarlow, R. 1541 A brief summe of geographie

In: Taylor, E.G.R. A brief summe of geographie by Roger Barlow, edited with an introduction and notes. London, Hakluyt Society, Works Second Series, vol. 69: pp. i-lvi, 1-210
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In India - Bengala: . . . and ther the bestes called Rhynocerontes which be as elephants and almost of ther colour, thei be as bygg as a bull and is of making like a hogge saving he hathe his nose croked like a horn and is very hard, wherwith he fighteth with other beastes.
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File AvailableBarlow, R. 1541 A brief summe of geographie

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In India - Bengala: . . . and ther the bestes called Rhynocerontes which be as elephants and almost of ther colour, thei be as bygg as a bull and is of making like a hogge saving he hathe his nose croked like a horn and is very hard, wherwith he fighteth with other beastes.
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File AvailableConti, N. 1485 The Travels of Nicolo Conti, in the East, in the early part of the 15th century, as related by Poggio Bracciolini, in his work entitled 'Historia de Varietate Fortunae' liber IV

In: Major, R.H. India in the fifteenth century. London, Hakluyt Society, Works vol. 22: pp. i-v, i-xc, 1-49, 1-39, 1-32, 1-19, i-vii
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Description of India

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There is here also an animal which has a head resembling that of a pig, a tail like that of an ox, and on his forehead a horn similar to that of the unicorn, but shorter, being about a cubit in length. It resembles the elephant in size and colour, with which i...
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File AvailableIbn Battuta 1350 Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354

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File AvailableJordanus, Friar 1200 Mirabilia descripta

In: Yule, H. The wonder of the East, by Friar Jordanus, of the order of preachers and bishop of Columbum in India the greater (circa 1330). London, Hakluyt Society, Works vol. 31: pp. i-viii, i-xvii, 1-68
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File AvailableManou 1200 Les lois

In: Strehly, G. Les lois de Manou, traduite du Sanskrit. Annales du Musee Guimet 2: iii-xxv, 1-402
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File AvailableCosmas Indicopleustes 1000 Christiana topographia, liber XI
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File AvailableMegasthenis Indica no year known Fragmentum XV De bestiis Indiae et Arundine
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File AvailableSutta Nipata; Bhikkhu, Thanissaro no year known Sutta Nipata 1.3: Khaggavisisana Sutta: A rhinoceros horn. Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Internet page
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