Garden of Malabar, Vol. 1

The top of this page contains a certification written in Malayalam script. The text serves as an attestation of the translation's accuracy.

A handwritten signature in Latin script with decorative flourishes reads "Eman: Carneiro".

I, Emanuel Carneiro, a Roman Christian and inhabitant of the City of Cochin, sworn interpreter of the Honorable Indian Company, by the command of D. Commander Henricus van Rheede, have explained and interpreted from the Malabar language into the Portuguese language the names, medicinal virtues, and properties of the trees, plants, herbs, and vines growing in these Malabar lands, as heard from Coladda, a Malabar Gentile doctor of the Cheguo nation, native to Carruparàm, and from Malabar doctors...