On the way back from his last trip to India.............the Frenchman who wrote this.........and when he supposedly brought back the Hope diamond...............he was brought back by the Dutch East India company..........they stopped in South Africa.........b/c so many on the ship had gotten sea sick........or suffered from something else.......

Travels in India : Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689 : Free ...

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Internet Archive BookReader - Travels in India. The BookReader ... Translation of pt. 2 of the author's Les six voyages, which was first published at Paris, 1676.

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