A New Account of the East Indies: Giving an Exact and Copious Description of the Situation, Product, Manufactures, Laws, Customs, Religion, Trade, &c. of All the Countries and Islands, which Lie Between the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of Japon; Interspersed with an Entertaining Relation Not Only of the Principal Events, which Happened During the Author's Thirty Years Residence in Those Parts; But Also of the Most Remarkable Occurrences and Revolutions in Those Vast Dominions for this Century Past; Comprehending Also Many Curious and Interesting Particulars Relating to Our Commerce with Those Countries, and the Affairs of the East India Company; Illustrated with Maps and Sculptures, Volume 1

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C. Hitch; and A. Millar, 1744
 

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