The travels of Pedro Teixeira
Subtitle: with his "Kings of Harmuz," and extracts from his "Kings of Persia."
By: Tr. and annotated by William F. Sinclair ... with further notes and an introduction by Donald Ferguson
Contributors: Sinclair, William Frederick, d. 1900; Ferguson, Donald William; Stevens, John, d. 1726; Tūrān Shāh ibn Quṭb al-Dīn, d. 1378; Mīr Khwand; Cruz, Gaspar da, d. 1570
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ... 2d series, no. IX; Works issued by the Hakluyt Society -- 2nd ser., no. 9.
Publisher: Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Published: 1902
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Notes: Comprises translations from the "Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y svccession de los reyes de Perisia, y de Harmuz, y de vn viage hecho por el mismo avtor dende la India Oriental hasta Italia por tierra", Amberes, 1610.

"The first coming of the English and the Dutch to the East" [taken largely from Portuguese sources]; p. xxv-ixxxix.

"Captain John Steven's preface to his translation of ... 'Kings of Persia' and 'Kings of Harmuz'; including the author's preface to his whole work": p. ci-cvii.

"Narrative of my journey from India to Italy": p. 1-151.  A translation of p. 47-115 [i. e. 215] of the second part of the "Relaciones".

"A short narrative of the origin of the kingdom of Harmuz and of its kings ... written by Torunxa" (p. [153]-192) translated from p. 1-46 of the second part of the "Relaciones".  The Spanish text is a summarized translation of the "Shāhnāma" of Turān Shāh.

"Extracts from the 'Relation of the kings of Persia'": p. [196]-239.  These extracts are taken from the first part of the "Relaciones" (p. 1-376) being a summarized translation, with digressions, of Mīr Khāwand's "Rauzat-us-safā".

"A short account of the most notable provinces and those that have continued longest under the dominion of Persia" (p. [240]-255) by Teixeira, translated from p. 377-384 of the first part of the "Relaciones".

"Relation of the chronicle of the kings of Ormuz ... composed by a king ... named Pachaturunxa, written in Arabic [i. e. Persian] and summarily translated into the Portuguese language by a friar of the order of Saint Dominick": p. [256]-267.  The Portuguese translation of Tūrān Shāh's work formed an appendix (11 p.) to Gaspar da Cruz's "Tractado ... da China", 1569, and has been attributed to him.