The Land of the Permauls or Cochin

This book, originally published in 1863, provides the comprehensive information about Cochin. The eighteen chapters describe its history, legends, people, politics, commerce and produce, flora and fauna, foreign settlements, wars, customs and so forth. It is a remarkable description of Cochin in the mid-nineteenth century. The author, a surgeon and medical officer to the government of the Rajah of Cochin, provides a number of detailed chapters on the fauna of the state. Both H.H. the Rajah of Cochin, and S. Menone, the Dewan, provided information on many subjects connected with the native State.