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Marco Polo enthuses over the pearl divers of Malabar in 1320, while William Hodges provides a detailed account of Massoolah boats circa 1780 ("flat bottomed, with the sides raised high, and sewed together with the fibres of the cocoa-nut tree"), and natives ("some ... wholly naked, and others so clothed, that nothing but the face and neck is to be discovered"). Afanasy Nikitin observes Hindu worship ("they raise high both hands and put them on their crown, and lie face downwards on the ground and stretch out on it") in 1466; Fanny Parks composes an ode to Ganesh, the patron of literature, in 1822 ("Moon-crowned! Triple-eyed! Thou who in all affairs claimest precedence in adoration! Calamity-averting Ganesh! Salam!!"). With a scholarly introduction on the history of travel to India, and a select chronology of writers who have added to the Indian canon, Kaul's anthology of travelers' tales offers an enormous variety of descriptions, reactions, and observations, providing hundreds of vignettes culled from the centuries, and some insights into the minds and preoccupations of the writers, as well.
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