A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon : with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products and living creatures. The manners, habits, oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants ; as likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements betwixt the Portugueses and Dutch ; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorn'd with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits &c. of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and complete account of the idolatory of the pagans in the East-Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam or Law-Book, and authentick manuscripts ; partly from frequent conversation with their priests and divines : with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. Vol III / by Philip Baldaeus, Minister of the Word of God in Ceylon. Translated from the High-Dutch.