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• “Indya wychodnj” (East India), in Geograffia aneb Wypsánj Okrsslku Zemského (Geography, or a Description of the Earth’s District)
• Тамо амо по Истоку (Here and There Across the East)
  The translation consists of parts of a travelogue by the Serbian doctor and academic Milan Jovanović Morski. After getting his degree in medicine in Leipzig in 1867, he travelled for some time as a cruise-ship doctor for the Austrian company “Lloyd” and wrote accounts of his visits to India, China, and other Asian countries.
• De thugs, eene sekte van moordenaars, in Indië (The thugs, a sect of murderers, in India)
  Translation of a Dutch 19th-century newspaper article on the so-called ‘thugs’, robbers who were allegedly motivated by their religious beliefs and followed a specific modus operandi: they strangled and robbed unsuspecting travelers on desolate travel routes and claimed to follow ‘divine instructions’ from Kali. The article was published in three parts in the regional newspaper Vlissingsche Courant in 1837.