03283cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000440011324000420015724500300019926400510022930000470028033600260032733700260035333800360037950000660041550000310048150801860051252019540069853400570265265300590270970000410276870000220280985600590283185600430289076461UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251800utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aDS1 aPaulinus, a S. Bartholomaeo,d1748-180610aViaggio alle Indie orientali. English10aVoyage to the East Indies 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTranslated from a German translation of the Italian original.  aRelease date is 2025-07-08  aCarol Brown, Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Voyage to the East Indies" by a S. Bartholomaeo Paulinus is a travel account written in the late 18th century. Based on a long residence in southern India, it blends geography, ethnography, linguistics, natural history, and colonial politics, with particular focus on the Coromandel and Malabar coasts. The narrative dwells on cities, rivers, trade, religions, and missionary work, while carefully correcting European misunderstandings of local languages and place-names. Readers interested in South Indian cultures and the early modern contest among European powers will find it especially informative.  The opening of the work follows the author’s arrival at Puduceri (Pondicherry): a perilous surf landing, a vivid contrast of seasons on India’s east and west coasts shaped by the Ghats, and first lodgings among Capuchins and French missionaries. He sketches the city’s fortifications, segregated quarters, and garrison, notes the role of sepoys and the rise of Hyder Ali, and criticizes French commerce that fed English strength; he also records encounters with white ants that ruin his belongings and a centipede “ear” incident cured by a missionary remedy. A visit to the seminary at Virapatnam reveals a tightly organized regimen of study, trades, and Latin, followed by a public procession of the sacred ox (Apis) and a discussion linking Indian cow/ox symbolism with Egyptian parallels; he remarks on local housing, church jurisdictions, and the entanglement of Capuchins, former Jesuits, and Missions Étrangères. He then corrects European place-names with etymologies, and broadens into a survey tying ancient and modern geographies, the rise of Mughal power, English revenues and monopolies, and concise portraits of Marava, Tanjore, and Madura—their rivers (Cavèri and Coleroon), crops, ports, and the political struggles that drew in European companies and their allies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Vernor and Hood, 1800  aIndia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 18001 aForster, Johann Reinhold,d1729-17981 aJohnston, William4 uhttps://archive.org/details/voyagetoeastindi00paoluoft40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76461