Edward Terry, 1590-1660
Travels in India
Printed by:
1625 A relation of a Voyage to the Easterne India. In: Purchas, Samuel, His Pilgrimes, vol. 2, book 9, chapter 6, pp. 1464-1482.
1655 A voyage to East-India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader. Observed by Edward Terry minister of the Word (then student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now rector of the church at Greenford, in the county of Middlesex. London: Printed by T.W. for J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, at the Bell in St. Pauls Chutch-Yard, pp. [i-xvi], 1-545, [i-vii] - not seen
1777 A voyage to East-India; wherein some things are taken notice of, in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul: mixt with some parallel observations and inferences upon the story, to profit as well as delight the reader. Reprinted from the edition of 1655. London: J. Wilkie, pp. i-xix, 1-511, [i-ii]; 8vo.
Translations
1633 Voyage aux Estats du Mogol.
1672 Voyage de Edouard Terri aux Indes Orientales. Pp. 1-30 in part 1 (1672) of M. Thevenot, Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées. Paris.
1696 Voyage aux Indes Orientales. Paris, 1-30. 36 cm.- Lib Congress, not seen
1707 Scheeps-togt. Leyden: P. van der Aa, 1707. 1 p.l., 63, [7] p. 2 fold. plates, fold. map. 18 cm. – Lib Congress, not seen
Edward Terry, chaplain to Thomas Roe, visited parts of Gujarat, India from 1616 to1619. His manuscript written after his return was published by Purchas. The edition of 1655 was published under his own name and much expanded.
English text from Purchas, 1625
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Here are likewise ... some rhynocerots, which are large beasts as bigge as the fayrest oxen England affords; their skins lye platted, or as it were in wrinkles upon their backs.
French translation in Thevenot, 1672
[1672: 15]
Ils ont avce cela grand nombre de chameaux, de dromedaires, des mulets, d’asnes, & de rinoceros, qui sont aussi grands que les plks grandes boeufs d’Angleterre.
