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Peter Mundy

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British merchant trader, traveller and writer

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  • Travels of Peter Mundy, 1608-1667 No. III
  • Vultures of Africa
  • The travels of Peter Mundy
  • The travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667
  • Educational interventions for students with autism

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  • To the Munares of dead mens heads made bv Abdulla Ckaun [’Abdull’ah Khān] are added since our comeinge this way by Furzand Ckaun [Farzand Khān] about 60 more with 35 or 40 heads a peece, lately killed.
  • Neere Etaya [Etāwa] there was a new Munare a makeinge with a great heape of heads lyeing by them, ready to bee immortered.
  • Here is a Hindooe Dewra ruinated, it seems by Moores envieing its beautie, adorned on the outside with the best Carved worke that I have seene in India, verie spacious and high, yett not a handbreadth from the foote to the topp but was Curiously wrought with the figures of men and weomen etts. their fabulous stories. Now the said Edifice is defaced by the throwing downe the Copulaes, Arches and pillars thereof, breaking the Armes, Leggs and Noses of the said images…

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