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- Balasor, factory established at, 276; Thomas Pitt at, 286; sacked by the English, 296
- Ball, George, conducts an expedition to the Moluccas, 186; protests against the Dutch proclamation, 196
- Banca, Sir Edward Michelbome, attacked by pirates off, 58
- Banda, Keeling establishes a factory at, 67; inhabitants of implore assistance, 186; Dutch defeat at, 187
- Bantam, Lancaster visits, 61; John Middleton dies at, 52; Captain David Middleton gets a rich lading at, 68; Trades Increase destroyed by fire at, 114; death of Sir Henry Middleton at, 114; desperate condition of the English at, 185; expulsion of the English from, 239
- Barker's, Edmund, account of Lancaster's first voyage to the East, 26
- Batavia (see also Jakatra) dissensions between English and Dutch at, 210; indignation of English Colony at, at "The Massacre of Amboina," 235
- Bear, galleon, 20
- Beaufort, The, 296
- Bengal, first English expedition to, 275; Hedges sent as Agent to, 283
- Benton, William, narrative of, of first English expedition to Bengal, 275
- Beomont, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
- Best, Captain Thomas, arrives at Surat, 117; early history of, 117; disposition of, 118; addresses the crew of the Osiander, 119; engages the Portuguese fleet off Surat and defeats it, 120; obtains firman to trade, 122
- Blyth, Captain, conducts fleet to Persian Gulf, 248
- Bombay, combined English and Dutch fleet attacks, 258; a Dutch iconoclast at, 260; Captain John Hall's favourable account of, 262; Surat Council urge occupation of, 263; part of the dower of Charles II's bride, 265; expedition to occupy island of, 266; Viceroy of Goa declines to hand over, 267; transfer of from the Portuguese, 267; transferred to the East India Company, 269; Gerald Aungier's successful administration of, 270; population of, 271; description of, 272; seat of Government transferred to, 304
- Botelho, Admiral, evades the English and Dutch fleet, 259
- Boughton, Gabriel, obtains trading privileges for the English, 276
- Brazil, Fenton's piratical raid along the coast of, 20; Lancaster's expedition to, 29
- Brown, Robert, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
- Buckingham, Duke of, believed to have been bribed by the Dutch, 237
- Burhanpur, Sir Thomas Roe arrives at, 135
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- Calcutta founded by Job Charnock, 290; character of site of, 305
- Cambello, 187, 211
- Cannanore captured by the Dutch, 264
- Cape of Good Hope, storms off the, 24; first known as the Cape of Torments, 42
- Carlmilhan, the, 42
- Carpentier, General, Coen's instructions to, 210; comments of on "The Massacre of Amboina," 236; views of concerning the English connection, 257
- Cartwright opens up a trade with Bengal, 275 *Cassarian, David, Master of the Solomon, captured
