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 158 THE END OF THE STRUGGLE ness of Portuguese misrule, and which had burned up afresh before the foundation of British territorial sway in India. Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the chief founder of the Dutch colonial system, became governor-general in TOMB OF THE MOGHUL OFFICIAL ITMAD - AD - DAULAH, AT AGRA. 1618— the date taken by European history for the com- mencement of the Thirty Years' War. Coen has left in his own words a detailed descrip- tion of the fabric which he designed. The Dutch char- ter expired in January, 1623, and on the 21st of that month the great governor-general, as the last act of his first term of office, drew up his political testament for the benefit of his countrymen in the form of in- structions left with Peter de Carpentier, governor-gen- eral, and the Council of the Indies, and dated Batavia,