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Dr John Fryer was a near contemporary of both Tavernier and Bernier and Manucci. If he is\r\nnot quite in the same league of those great travellers, his New Account, written between 1672\r\nand 1681 in epistolary form, which covers an immense range of observation in India and\r\nPersia, is surely a worthy companion. 1672 was the year in which he was sent as surgeon for\r\nthe East India Company’s factory at Surat. He had graduated from Trinity and then Pembroke\r\nColleges, Cambridge and his New Account shows him to be a young man of scientific\r\ncuriosity and wide reading. He was later elected a fellow of the Royal Society. There is also\r\nthe pleasure of his prose style, somewhat reminiscent of Sir Thomas Herbert and Sir Thomas\r\nBrowne whose Religio Medici he quotes. Perhaps as a result of this facility coupled with his\r\nevident ignorance of Indian languages, he uses many Anglo-Indian expressions which made\r\nhim a major source for that great compendium, Hobson-Jobson (1st edn, 1886).\r\n