Ralph Fitch (1583-1591)

From the Silk Road site
(http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html):

Primary source:

"The long, dangerous, and memorable voyage of M. Ralph Fitch...," in Richard Hakluyt, comp., The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, 8 vols. (London, etc., 1927; various earlier eds.), Vol. 3, pp. 281-315; also, pp. 280-281, one of Fitch's letters; pp. 315-321, Linschoten's account about Fitch's imprisonment in Goa. "The republication of Fitch's account in Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, is somewhat abridged." (http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html)

J. Courtenay Locke, ed., The First Englishmen in India: Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans written by themselves... (London: Routledge, 1930). "Includes Fitch's ]Relation,' pp. 69-78, 88-89, 99-149, and the other documents relating to his trip.F (http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html)

Secondary source:

William Foster, England's Quest of Eastern Trade (London: Black, 1966; repr. of 1933 ed.), Chs. VIII-IX.