Chapter XIII of Tavernier's notices of the Dutch in Asia: Containing the arrival of Mr Charles Constant in Persia, Commanding a Dutch Squadron.
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Chapter XIII. Containing the arrival of Mr Charles Constant in Persia, Commanding a Dutch Squadron. His transactions with the Court of Persia and the quarrel he had with the English Agent there. Translated from H van Quellenburgh, Vindiciae Botanical often Reputatie van, J. B. Tavernier (1684),...
A short account or substantial narrative of the lives, manners and postures of the wild men sojourning the jungle upward the River of Malacca and precisely observing the fruit season of the year
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Translated from the Dutch of Mackenzie Private 54, q.v., pp. 83-90.
History of the origin, progress and present state of the Trade of the General Netherlands East India Company
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Printed at Arnhem 1768. Vol. 1 Pages 487 to 513. Translated from Verhaal van het begin, vortgaang en teegenwordigen staat der Koophandel, van de Generaale Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, published as above stated. (The second part is dated 1772). The part here extracted be...
Instructions for the Geographical Engineers at the Depot-General of War of the Kingdom of Holland
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The Hague, 4 March 1808. Instructions for the Geographical Engineers at the Depot-General of War of the Kingdom of Holland, by Major General C R T Kragenbott, Inspector-General of Artillery & Engineers. Translated from the Dutch or French with pencilled corrections added by Mackenzie. Arr...
Account of a bold undertaking, made in the year 1666, by the Netherlanders in Persia, where they burnt the King of England in effigy.
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Translated from H van Quellenburgh, Vindiciae Batavicae ofte Reputatie van J. B. Tavernier (1684), pp. 309-314. For other portions of thw rok see 19, supra, Mackenzie 1822.12 and 13, and Mackenzie Miscellaneous.
Cuperus [A Couperus?] Remarks on Majapahita [= Majapahit]
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An essay on Javanese history, comparing it with Malay history (the chronology of which, especially as regards the destruction of Singapore and the founding of Malacca, the author wrongly assumed to be as supposed by Valentyn). Contains little that can be considered of permanent value, but the au...
The History of Brammah of Gellingmassie, to the Island of Java and the Sannahpatte (or Commander) in Chief of Mataram, who fought the Sultan of Pajang and other Countries and conquered all. Translated from Javanese.
Orme Collection: papers of Robert Orme (1728-1801), East India Company servant, Bengal and Madras 1743-58, historiographer to the Company 1769-1801, chiefly collected for his `History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the year 1745' (London 1763, 1778).
The INDIA volumes, containing almost entirely copies of manuscripts, the originals of most of which are to be found in the ORME VARIOUS, though some [e.g. the Eyre Coote Journals (VII. 3, 4; VIII. 2), the originals of which, I fear, are hopelessly lost.], and these not the least important, are c...
Book, and Correspondences chiefly regarding Arcot, and Clive
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1, pp. [i-iv] and 1-49. General Idea of the Government and People of Indostan, by Robert Orme, Sept. 1753. Apparently a copy of the missing volume 53. Preface and three Books." Book I. composed at Calcutta., Sept. 1752, corrected on board the ship Pelham, 1753" ; "Book II. Composed at Calcutta i...