Mil (JONTENTS.
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
