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 INDEX 311 Of the States-General to the Dutch East India Company (1602), 219 Of Elizabeth (1600), to the English East India Company, 222, 230-232, 236-237, 238-239, 240-241, 245-246, 256 Charters of Novgorod abolished (1475), 35 For Indo-Portuguese trade (1500), 85- 86, 154 ; (1697) 162 Chera, kingdom in Southern India, 75 Jews in, 80 China (Tzinista, Chinistan, Cathay), Central Asian trade-route through, 13, 14, 15, 16 " Knife-Cash " of, 27 Buddhism spreads from India to, 27 Portuguese explorations in, 146 Portuguese trade with, 153, 226 English attempts to reach, 175, 179- 188, 212, 226, 248 Dutch expeditions to, 198 Chingiz Khan, devastations of the Mon- gols under (1206), 13 Christianity, early, in India, 79-80, 162, 208 Christians, native, in Abyssinia, the land of Prester John, 59-61 Nestorian St. Thomas, of Malabar, a powerful and respected military caste, 80-81, 91, 140, 143 Native, of Socotra, converted to Rome by Albuquerque, 100 Make Mohammedan children slaves and Christians on death of the parents and confiscate their prop- erty, 275-276 Ornamentation of places of worship of the, 276 European, contend against the Mo- hammedans in Malabar and the Deccan, 286-288, 291-297 Erect a fort at Quilon, 292 Treachery of, to new ruler of Calicut, 293 Territory of, 294-295 Persecute the Mohammedans, 295 Cinnamon, of Ceylon, Moslem monopoly of, 126 Portuguese trade in, 151 Clement IV, embassy of, to Tartar chief in Persia (1245), 36 Cloves, Portuguese trade in, 105, 151 Coats of arms of the English East India Company, 255-256 Cochin, Malabar port, early trade at, 78 Portuguese treaty with (1500), 86, 122 First establishment of Portuguese fac- tory at (1500), 86, 87, 92 Portuguese trade and friendly relations with, 88 Albuquerque's fortress at (1503), 90 92, 115 Pacheco's defence of, 90-91, 140 Portuguese government at, 93, 105, 122, 148 Portuguese misrule at, 158, 196, 212 English visit to, 212 First fort of Christians in India built at, 288 Coinage, Chinese, 27 Dutch charter for, in the East, 219 English, and the exportation of bul- lion, 225, 232, 237, 244, 246, 248 Coins, Cufic, in Stockholm, 18 Coke, Sir Edward, " Reports " of, quoted, 116 Columbus, Christopher, sources of in- formation and discoveries of, 55-59 International aspects of the informa- tion and discoveries of, to Portugal, Spain, and the European Powers, 61-62, 63, 65-66, 173, 174, 175, 200 Columbus, Ferdinand, son of Christopher, quoted, 58 Commerce, system of secret, before the sixteenth century, 198-202 Companies, Portuguese East India, va- rious, formed, 162 Company, Cathay and early English, 187 Company, Dutch East India, influence of the old tradition of monopoly on, 201 Influence of Linschoten's travels on, 210, 211 Expedition of, to India, under Hout- man (1595) and treaty with the King of Bantam, 210-211, 212 Fifteen " separate " expeditions of the, to the East (1595-1601), 213 Amalgamated into the United East India Company of 1602, 213, 218, 219 Expeditions of the, supported by the Dutch government, '217, 237 National aspects of the, 217-220, 237 Camtal of the, 218 Management and directors of the, 218- 220 Charter rights and privileges of the, 219 Shares and shareholders in the, 219 Policy of armed trade and exclusive monopoly in the East of the, 220 Governors and government of the, in the East, 220 Treaties of, in the East, 220 Company, English East India, Cath-