INDEX
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lish made captives at, 102; attack on the Darling at, 103
- Mogul Court, splendour of the, 133 Mogul Government, grants a firman to trade at Surat to the English, 122; declares war against the Portuguese, 123
- Moluccas, The, Cavendish viaita, 22; Lancaster sends a pinnace to, 52; Henry Middleton establishes a trade with, 67; David
Middleton conducts a successful expedition to, 68; Henry Middleton's visit to, 181; Reeling's visit to, 181; David Middleton's visit to, 182; Jourdain's visit to, 182; George Ball conducts an expedition to, 186; expedition despatched to, to relieve Courthope, 197; Dutch fleet withdraws from Jakatra to, 203
- Morgenstine, The, 192
- Mukund Deo, last King of Oriasa, 275
- Mumtar Mahal, Prince Khurmm's devotion to, 161
- Musical Instruments on the East India Company's ships, 70
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- Nailaka, Courthope establishes a fort on, 193
- Neira, 187, 193
- New Year's Gift, 124
- Newberry, James, 30
- Nicobar Islands, Lancaster touches at the, 26
- Noor Mahal, Jehangir's favourite queen, 137; accompanies
- Jehangir on his progress, 149; intrigues of, 161; assists the designs of Roe, 163
- North-West Passage, efforts to discover the, 19
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- Oriental Hansard, An, 143
- Orme's appreciation of Downton, 129
- Ormuz, Fitch and his companions imprisoned at, 31; Portuguese occupation of, 241; besieged by the Persians, 248; besieged
by the English, 252; surrendered to the English, 253; description of, 254
- Osiander, The, 117, 121
- Overland route for letters, early use of. 111
- Oxenden, Christopher, tomb of, 270
- Oxenden, Sir George, appointed to the charge of the Surat factory, 265; early career of, 266; skilful policy of, 269; death of, 270; epitaph of, 270; on the library at Surat factory, 315
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- Parsees of Bombay, 271
- Patani, Sir Edward Michelborne directs his course to, 58; the Darling at, 113; the Hound
and the Sampson attacked and captured by the Dutch at, 206
- Patham wrestles with a lion at Agra, 87
- Patna, factory established at, 277
- Pemba, Sharpeigh's fleet off, 93
- Pemberton escapes from captivity at Mocha, 105
- Penang, Lancaster visits, 26
- Penelope, The, 23
- Pepper Trade, 43
- Peppercorn, The, 69, 90, 99, 104, 108, 113
- Persian Gulf, English in the, 240; importance of the, 241
- Persians besiege Ormuz, 249; conclude a compact with the English, 250
- Phantom Ship, the legend of, 42
- Piracy, acts of, by Sir Edward Michelborne, 56
- Pitt, Thomas, arch-interloper, 283; appointed Governor of Madras, 286; famous diamond of, 288
- Plate, River, wreck of one of Fenton's ships off the mouth of the, 21
