His account can also be seen as an example of how Europeans were beginning to understand the world about them more and more by means of a critical use of sources of information and by experiment.
Acknowledgements viiIntroduction ixNote xxviiGlossary xxixAn account of a Journey undertaken be Order of the Board of Trade through the Provinces of Chittagong and Tiperah, in order to look out for the most proper for the cultivation of Spices, by Francis Buchanan, M.D. 1References 143Geographical Index: A. Places, Mountains and Regions 149B. Rivers and Waters 175Index of Persons 195Index of Ethnic Groups 199Botanical Index 205
