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- occupies Jakatra, 203; withdraws his fleet to India, 204; death of, 205
- Damaun besieged by Kakarrab Khan, 123
- Darling, The, 69, 99, 103, 105, 107, 113, 182
- Daud Khan, Nabob of the Carnatic, attacks Madras, 286
- Davis, John, of Sundridge, early career of, 38; accompanies Lancaster on his second voyage to the East, 38; accompanies Sir Edward Michelbome's expedition to the East, 56; killed by Japanese pirates, 61
- Davis, Master of the Swan, deserts Courthope, 191
- Day, Francis, founds Madras, 263
- De Bruyne, Fiscal of Amboina, conducts torture of prisoners, 226; censured by Carpentier, 235
- Dedel, Comelis, prepares to attack Courthope, 191
- Defence, The, 187, 189
- Discipline on the ships of the East India Company, 72
- Don Jeronimo attacks Downton off Surat, 125
- Downton, Nicholas, appointed to command the Darling, 69; discourse of to his men, 71; commands the Peppercorn, 90; left in charge at Aden, 99; proceeds to Mocha, 100; schemes to release Sir Henry Middleton, 105; quarrels with Middleton, 106; gloomy ratiocinations of, 112; arrives off Surat with four ships, 124; is attacked by the Portuguese, 126; wins a notable victory, 127; is attacked by the Rev. Peter Rogers, 128; dies at Bantam, 129; character of, 129
- Drake's circumnavigation of the world, 18; visit to the Spice Islands, 179
- Drinking, inordinate, amongst the East India Company's servants, 72, 314
- Drunkenness, attitude of Jehangir towards, 143
- Dutch and English rivalry in the East, 177, 257
- Dutch graveyard at Surat, Van Speult buried in the, 237
- Dutch, open a trade with the East, 33; effect of Eastern operations of the, on prices, 43; at Acheen, 44; firmly establish their power in the Eastern Seas, 180; capture the Swan off PooloRoon, 192; conclude the Treaty of Defence with the English, 209; capture Ceylon and Cochin and Cannanore, 264; bitterly oppose English occupation of Bombay, 266; conclusion of war between the English and the, 277
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- Eagle, The, 247
- Eastern Archipelago, Dutch power founded in the, 33; the struggle for ascendancy in the, 178; English driven from the, 239; deadly rivalry in the, 240, 256
- East India Company, formation of the, 34; wide range of the first operations of the, 65; commanders of the, 66; life on the ships of the, 69; preachers on the ships of the, 71; stem discipline maintained on the ships of the, 72; firman to trade granted to, by the Mogul Government, 122; firman to trade granted to, by Jehangir, 174; first designs of in regard to India, 177; appeal to the Lord Treasurer for redress against the Dutch, 182; issue of pamphlet by, concerning "The Massacre of Amboina," 219; Shah Abbas grants a firman to for trading in Persia, 214; contemplates the abandonment of its factory at Surat, 263; obtains a site for a factory on the Coromandol Coast, 263; transfer to the, of
