The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies

With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage

Clements R. Markham, Clements R. Markham

• Editorial: Hakluyt Society
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317011880
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Geschichte
• Categoría: Frühneuzeitliche Geschichte

The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of the Lancaster voyages, see Second Series 85. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877.

Index

Abd-al-Kuri, island, 116

Abexin, coast (see Abyssinian)

Abyssinian coast, skips of the sixth voyage anchored off, 176, 182, 184

Achin, vi;

arrival of Lancaster at, 74;

reception by the king, 75;

Queen Elizabeth’s letter to the king of, 78;

negotiation, 79 to 83;

the King’s letter and presents to Queen Elizabeth, 94 to 97;

ships of the tenth voyage at, 248;

entertainments at 250, 254;

war with Johore, 251, 253;

the king in state, 256;

punishments at, 257;

money and weights, 258;

account of, 259

Adams, Captain, voyage to Cochin China, 267

Adams, Mr., the preacher, at Mr. Traine’s death-bed at Bantam, 218

Addy, Mr. (see Audely)

Aden, Captain Keelinge sails for, 118, 121;

Captain Sharpeigh at, 122;

the “Peppercorn” at, 146, 148;

ships of sixth voyage at, 166;

description, 166;

blockade of, 200, 201

Agoa, Baia de, 17

Agoada de San Bras, 2

Agoada de Saldanha (see Saldanha)

Ahmedabad (Amedewar?), 240, 241, 265

Aldersley, Mr., arrives at the Down to bring the “Peppercorn” up the Thames, 226

Aldsworth, Mr., chief factor at Surat, 233, 245

Aloe, at Socotra, 117, 163, 166

Amboyna, 219

Amedevar (see Ahmedabad)

Amity, E.I.C. ship, 276

Andrewes, Peter, journal of in E.I.C. ship “Mary” 272

Anna, E.I.C. ship, 277

Ann Royal, E.I.C. ship, 268;

William Baffin a master’s mate in, 268 (n), 270;

Walter Bennett, captain of, 270

Anne, Cape, in Greenland, xvii

Antelope, E.I.C. ship, 276

Antongil, Bay of (Madagascar), 66, 67, 68, 160

Antonio, Don, pretender to the Portuguese throne, 7

Arctic navigators (see Davis, Baffin, Hall, Cunningham, Knight, Lindenow, Waymouth)

Arctic navigators expeditions despatched by the East India Company, xvii;

importance of, xxi

Areta, capital of the King of Rohela, 179

Arnold, surgeon in Lancaster’s first voyage, death, 8

Articles for the tenth E. I. voyage, 228 to 233

Asab Bay (or Margabra), 178, 182,184, 203

Ascension Isle, 106

Ascension, E.I.C. ship, in the first voyage, iv, v, 57, 126;

Captain Brand, 58;

on the fourth voyage, x, 120;

anchored off Mocha, 123;

lost her anchors at Socotra, 125

Audely, Mr. (Addy), of Poplar, in the Pernambuco voyage, 36, 43, 53

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