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    Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563 – 8 February 1611) was a Dutch merchant, traveller and writer. He travelled extensively along the East Indies regions...
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    Market of Goa is Plate 5 in Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario. The plate depicts the market in Goa, a region on the southwestern coast of India that...
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    same as the European hemp plant (alcanave). In 1596, a Dutchman, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, wrote three pages on "Bangue" in a work documenting his journeys...
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    consumed as an edible in the Muslim world. In 1596, Dutchman Jan Huyghen van Linschoten spent three pages on "Bangue" (bhang) in his historic work documenting...
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    England in 1591, and became a valuable advisor to the company. Jan Huyghens van Linschoten (1563–1611) was a Dutch Protestant traveller and historian who...
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    ships finally arrived at Banten, a northwestern port at Java. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten had told them not to pass through the Malacca Strait, which was...
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    Burnell, Arthur Coke & Tiele, P.A. (1885). The voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies. from the old English translation of 1598: the...
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    could about the Spice Islands. In 1595, merchant and explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, having traveled widely in the Indian Ocean in the service of...
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    dead link] Linschoten, Jan Huyghen van (2004) [1598]. Voyage to Goa and Back, 1583–1592, with His Account of the East Indies: From Linschoten's Discourse...
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  • Linschoten is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include: Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten (1590–1677), Dutch painter Jan Huyghen van Linschoten...
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    August, and the day and the month were first quoted in 1596 by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, who was probably mistaken, because the island was discovered...
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    Further, a number of Dutch merchants and explorers, such as Jan Huyghen van Linschoten and Cornelis de Houtman, went on to obtain firsthand knowledge...
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    "Reys-gheschrift van de Navigation der Portugaloysers in Orienten", the journal written by Dutch author Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, names a certain "Selat...
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    reach their ultimate goal, the trip was considered a success. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten was a member of this expedition and the second. The following...
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    2008 (in Dutch). Davison, p. 88. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten; William Phillip, transl. (1598), Iohn Huighen van Linschoten. His Discours of Voyages into ye...
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    1608) sailor, the first known Dutch visitor to China and Japan Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563–1611) merchant, trader and historian Joris Carolus (ca.1566–ca...
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    spy dispatched to Lisbon in 1592 to scout the spice trade, and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, a Dutch sailor who had served on many Portuguese India armadas...
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  • two crowns in 1580 it was also at war with Portugal. In 1595 Jan Huyghen van Linschoten published previously-secret Portuguese sailing directions for...
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    paper published in 2015 reviewed the discovery date and suggests Jan Huyghen van Linschoten was probably the first (in 1596) to state that the island was...
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    traveller Wallace cites is Linschott (Wallace's spelling for Jan Huyghen van Linschoten), whose name appears repeatedly in Internet searches on durian...
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    "Magadoxo", a name which later, by corruption became Madagascar. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, a Dutch traveler who copied Portuguese works and maps, confirmed...
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    the Portuguese empire in Asia. In 1583, merchant and explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 – 8 February 1611), formerly the Dutch secretary of the...
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    Barbosa, Ralph Fitch, Ludovico di Varthema, Cesare Federici, and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. Humanist travellers in Europe also produced accounts, often noting...
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    and Southeast Asia (Burma, Lan Na, Malacca). 1595: The Dutchman Jan Huyghen van Linschoten published his Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers...
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    1596 map of the Middle East and the Indian Ocean by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten...
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    Terceira in 1595 by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, "A cidade de Angra na ilha de Iesu xpō da Tercera que esta em 39. graos"...
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  • Helena, no. 44 (2015): 32–46.[14] Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen Van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien...
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    documentation of symptoms occurred in the 16th century, when Jan Huyghen van Linschoten wrote about the disease during the exploration of Goa. Similar...
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    "Magadoxo", a name which later, by corruption became Madagascar Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, a Dutch traveler who copied Portuguese works and maps, confirmed...
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    after the 12th century dates to 1598, when a Dutch traveler, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, noted in a book that the leaves of the Assam tea plant were used...
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