Edward Terry (author)

While en route in the Indian Ocean, the fleet engaged and destroyed a Portuguese carrack.

Terry wrote A Voyage to East-India[1] as an expanded version of a manuscript that was first published in Purchas his Pilgrimes in 1625.

What distinguished Voyage was Terry's detailed descriptions of the different ethnic groups in the region, including their cultures, languages, and religious beliefs.

Terry was one of the first writers to describe Indian-style vegetarianism to Early Modern England.

[2] Given that Terry only visited two regions of the Indian Subcontinent, much of his commentary was probably based on other research.