After the Austrian nobleman Georg Christoph Fernberger came to the Ottoman court as part of an
embassy he traveled to Egypt Sinai and Mesopotamia from 1588 on and finally reached Hormuz.
Here Fernberger one of the first tourists of modern times entered the world of the Portuguese
Estado da India where he was to stay for two years. The part of his Indian travelogue
presented in this volume deals with the travel stage from the Indus to Malaysia. The detailed
description of the Portuguese colonial rule in Goa as well as the detailed and historically
relevant description of the kingdom of Pegu (later Siam) which soon afterwards perished is
particularly commendable.
