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CirAl'TER VIII.

Portuguese progress in the East — The viceroyrthips of Fntucisco Ahneida and Alfonuo

Alljiiquenine, .... 1 S

CHAPTER IX,

Att'iiipts to reach India by other routes than that of the Cape — Their fiiilure Vjy the iini tli-v( sL and north-east — The south-west passage practicable, but circuitous — Superiority of the passage by the Cape generally recognized — First voyages of the English and Dutch by that route, lOO

CHAPTER X.

Association of merchant adventurers for a voyage to the East — Their proceedings —

Their memorial — The first English East India charter, 224

BOOK II.

CHAPTER I.

The first voyages of the Company — Localities selected — Opposition from the Dutch and the Portuguese — First English factory on the continent of India — Sir Thomas Roe's embassy to the court of the Great Mogul — State of that court — Establishment of a trade with Persia, ............. 238

CHAPTER II.

Progress of the Company's trade — Proceedings in the Persian Gulf — New joint stock —

Arrangement with the Dutch — The council of defence — The massacre of Amboyna, 258

CHAPTER III.

Truce with the Portuguese — Establishment of a rival company — Settlement wdth the

Dutch — State of the Company under Cromwell, 267

CHAPTER IV.

Reign of Shah Jehan— His deposition by Aurungzebe — Rise and progi-ess ot the

Mahrattas — Reign of Aurungzebe, 251

CHAPTER V.

Resumption of the history of the East India Company — New general charter by Charles II. — Constitutional question raised by the Company's proceedings — Grant of the island of Bombay, 309

CHAPTER VI.

Administration and progress of Bombay — Difficulties— State of the other settlements of

the Company,. 324