English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth CenturyK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Company, Limited, 1890 - 503 pages |
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Acheen affairs afterwards ambassador arrived ashore Ayuthia Bangkok Bantam Bengal boats Burneby capital Captain Weltden cargo carried chief China coast Coates command Company's Court Curtana dated Davenport Diary doubtless Dutch East India Company Elihu Yale embassy England English Englishmen factory favour Fort St George Francis Heath French George White governor hath Honble Comp Honourable India Office island January Japan King of Siam King's kingdom letter Ligor London Louvo Madras Majesty Masulipatam Maties Menam merchants Mergen Mergui natives Patani Pegu petition Phaulkon Phra-klang Pondicherry port Portuguese Potts President and Council prisoner proceeded recorded river Royal Rt honrble sailed Samuel White says seized sent servants Shahbandar ship shipps Siamese Sir John Child Strangh Surat Syam Tachard Tenasserim Tenasserim river Thomas Thomas Yale tion town trade vessel voyage William
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Page 416 - An act for granting to their Majesties several duties upon tonnagex>f ships and vessels, and upon beer, ale, and other liquors, for securing certain recompenses and advantages in the said act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds, towards carrying on the war with France.
Page 443 - October a petition of the Governor and Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies...
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Page 394 - The bamboos here are of an enormous size, and the joints are used for domestic vessels for holding water and other purposes. The journey for three days more passed over the same kind of country, in which thick jungle alternated with open plains, sometimes in cultivation, and small streams occasionally intersected the road. The evening of the third day brought the party to a broad and rapid river, the Tha-kham, near the mouth of which is situated the town of Phoon-phin, a place containing about 1,200...
Page 72 - Tonkin, Camboja, or any other place where they understand that good is to be donne, and soe furnish Japon with all sortes of comodeties which any other stranger can bring, and then stand upon their puntos, offering others what they list them selves, knowing no man will buy it but them selves or such as they please to joyne in company with them, nether that any stranger can...
Page 34 - He must have very carefully sifted the various accounts accessible to him, and exercised a painstaking selection in those communicated to him by the travellers, native and Portuguese, he met at Goa. He speaks of deriving his information not only "by the daily trafficking of the Portingalles out of India,' but also from the Peguans themselves, "whereof many dwell in India, some of them being Christians.
Page 420 - twas wild Fancy's play, — The loose and scattered relics of the day. "WE must now request our readers to adjourn to the breakfast-parlour of Mr. Oldbuck, who, despising the modern slops of tea and coffee, was substantially regaling himself, more majorum, with cold roast-beef, and a glass of a sort of beverage called mum...
Page 454 - II, who, in his troubles, pawned it in Holland for .€300, where it was bought by Governor Yale, and sold at his sale for £320, supposed for the Pretender.
Page 24 - Nature, the voyager comes suddenly at the head of the delta to a crescent of precipitous mountains skirted by the river at its base, and on the crest of a low ridge of hills on the opposite shore which lies across the bend like an arrow on the bow, are seen the dilapidated battlements of the old city of Tenasserim.
Page 418 - Tis yellow, and likewise As bitter as gall, And as strong as six horses, Coach and all. As I told you, 'twill make you As drunk as a drum : You'd fain know the name on't, But for that, my friend, mum.