(a) The Dutch original of the following. (b) Four questions on Ceylon, viz (a) whether and how the island could be made self supporting in regards rice supply, (b) whether and how suitable timber for shipbuilding could be found there in sufficient quantity, especially on the eastern side of the...
(a) Extract from a Dutch account of the Castes amongst the Sinhalese, including a fairly full description of the several kinds of costume worn by them, with reference to regulations dated 15 September 1758 and 4 July 1759. In part this covers much the same ground as Mackenzie Private 78.1 but is...
Instructions for the Commissioners appointed to register the landed property in Colombo, Mature and Galle.
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Colombo, 15 November 1745 (a) Instructie voor de ge committeer de om zig daar va te reguleeren bij de nieuwe land beschryving in de Colombose en Maturese Dessavenyen mitsgaders in de Gale Corle. The original of the following, q.v., (b) Instructions for the Commissioners appointed to make a ne...
Tutocoreen [= Tuticorin], 11 April 1676. Account or narrative of usefull benefits which the Honble Company could derive by hiring or taking in rent the sea ports of Madure [= Madura] and a few adjacent villages of the Naik of Madure, and of the manner how this can be the best effectuated, and a...
Visit of Gerrit de Heere, Governor of Ceylon, to Tutocoreen [Tuticorin]
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Extract of a diary held by Mr Gerrit de Heere, Governor and Director of the Island of Ceylon &ca as well by himself, as by his order by the Secretary Gerrit van Tholl, regarding the most principal matter and occurrences in his journey to and visit on the Coast of Madura till Tutocoreen [Tuti...
Account of the Manner of Hunting & Catching Elephants on the Island of Ceylon
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Colombo, 5 April 1809. Account of the Manner of Hunting & Catching Elephants on the Island of Ceylon. In an Extract of a letter from Captain Colebrooke to a friend in England. A detailed description of the usual process, the elephants being driven into a keddah or corral (here spelt Kraal ...
Report on the affairs of the Dutch East India Company
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Bound under the title "Report on Dutch Indian Commerce". pp iii, 1-160: From the Consulations of the Directory of State September 1st 1803. Letter F. Secret Report of the Commission on East India Affairs to the State Directory of the Batavian Republic at the Hague 31st August 1803. Translated ...
Miscellaneous proceedings of the Batavian Government
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Malacca Miscellaneous, 8 October 1678. Containing a report of the resigning Ordinary Counsellor of Netherlands India, Governor and Director of the Town and Fort Malacca and Dependencies, the Honble Balthazar Bort; left by him on his departure for Batavia to his Successor, the Honorary Counsello...
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.