x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Thomas Cavendish 81 View of the River Hugli at Calcutta 83 Broach, on the Coast of India, in 1778 . • 84 Aden 87 Court of Proprietors, East India House 91 Gold Lace Workers at Lucknow 93 A Seventeenth-century Map of India 97 A Native of Java 98 Matchlocks from Various Parts of India 101 Cape Town and Table Mountain 104 Decoration from an Indian Sword 109 Court of Directors, East India House Ill The Fortress at Amboyna 115 A Ship of the Seventeenth Century . . 117 Amboyna 122 A Scene at Darjiling 125 The Old East India House about (1650) 126 Marwari Merchants, or Traders of the Indies . . . . . .131 Palace of Jahangir at £gra 134 De Houtman's Map of the Sea Route to India, Batavia, and Java in 1597 137 A Typical Eastern Scene 140 Cape Town and Harbour 144 View of Lucknow 147 The Durbar of an Indian Ruler 149 Javanese Princes 153 Tomb of the Moghul Official Itmad-ad-Daulah, at Agra . . . .158 A Tropical Scene in India 161 Arms of the East India Company 164 Indian Carpenters at Work 166 The Kaiser Bagh at Lucknow 169 A Moslem Merchant in Ceylon 170 Travelling Snake-charmers at Surat 176 An Indian Tinsel-worker 181 The Old East India House on Leadenhall Street, 1726-1796 . . .184 Sculptured Figures in the Temple at Madura 187 A Scene in the Bombay Presidency, Western India 188 A General View of Surat 193 A View in the City of Ajmir 196 The Ruined City of Sarkhaj near Ahmadabad 198 A Native Vessel in the Straits of Malacca 206 A Teak-wood House at Surat . 209 Encamping at Rajapur near the Bombay Coast 213 A Southern Indian Sword 218 Madras 219
