Excerpt from The Voyage of Francois Pyrard of Laval, to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil, Vol. 2 of 2: Translated Into English From the Third French Edition of 1619, and Edited, With Notes; Part II The Congress Of Orientalists, held at Stockholm and Christiania in 1889, afforded an opportunity to our Council Of presenting a set Of the Society's works to King Oscar II, Honorary President Of that Congress. His Majesty was graciously pleased to accept this gift, and to express his satisfaction in adding these books to his Royal Library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.