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 *''honoured Masters, by whose wisdom and success the East Indian parts of the world are now nearly as well known as the countries next adjacent to us. So that by your means, not only the wealth, but the knowledge of those Indies is brought home to us. Unto your favour and patronage, therefore, Right Worshipful, I humbly presume to recommend these papers and the author of them; who rejoiceth at this opportunity to acknowledge the favours you have already conferred on him; and to profess that—next unto GOD—on you depend his future hopes and expectations. Being Right Worshipful, Your most obliged, and most humble and devoted servant to be commanded,''

ROBERT KNOX.

London.

18th March 1681.

To the Right Worshipful the Governor, the Deputy Governor, and Four and Twenty "Committees" of the Honourable the East India Company, viz:

Sir JOSIAH CHILD Baronet, Governor. THOMAS PAPILION Esquire, Deputy.

The Rt. Hon. GEORGE, Earl of Berkley. Sir JOSEPH ASHE Baronet. Sir SAMUEL BARNARDISTON Baronet. Mr. CHRISTOPHER BOONE. Mr. THOMAS CANHAM. Colonel JOHN CLERKE. Mr. JOHN CUDWORTH. JOHN DUBOIS Esquire. Sir JAMES EDWARDS Knight and Alderman. RICHARD HUTCHINSON Esquire.