This volume consists of a journal (log book) of a voyage to Madras [Chennai] and Bengal in the East India Company ship Dartmouth, recorded by the Captain of the ship Thomas Beckford. The journal entries are dated 14 October 1710 to 17 August 1713. The inscriptions on folio 2 of the journal s...
Correspondence with the Indian Governments 1785 to 1803 respecting Deficiency of Intelligence.
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Correspondence discusses certain deficiency in intelligence such as the use of private individuals to transfer correspondence. Includes a 'Statement of the Dispatches' sent to the Court of Directors by overland packet giving the Department (Secret; Public; Revenue and Judicial), date and route t...
Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship the Loyal Cooke (written in the journal as the Loyall Cooke) from England to China, Madras [Chennai] and Bengal (Captain Richard Bolton), 4 February 1703/4 to 12 October 1707. The Loyal Cooke departed from the Downs on 4 February 1703/4, and t...
'Phenix's Journall Capt. Tho. Lambert [...] begun 16th Nov 1700 ended 16th Dec 1703'
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Journal (compiled by John Carswell [Chief Mate]) of the voyage of the Phoenix from England to Fort St George at Madras, Bangall [Bengal], and Persia, and back (Captain Thomas Lambert), 1700-03. The Phoenix was at Gomorun [Bandar Abbas] from 25 April to 30 May 1702. The Journal consists of daily...
Jonas and Lion: Journal on Jonas and Lion, Richard Swanley
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This volume consists of a journal kept by Richard Swanley of journeys on board the East India Company ships the Jonas and the Lyon [Lion]. The journal contains the following: Daily entries (although there are not entries for every day) mainly recording winds and the weather, and the course an...
Mr D. Talamas. Correspondence relative to Compensation to him for carrying overland Dispatches. 1783
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Correspondence relates to procedures for carrying overland dispatches from India to London, including issues relating to the route taken via the Red Sea on the Snow Neptune; number of duplicates; clothing costs; other difficulties experienced and discussion of compensation.
'A Journall of our Intended Voyage in ye Ship Compton to Bengall in ye Indies' by Captain John Misenor, 17 February 1727/28-6 August 1730, and Received 1 September 1730'. The journal contains: The daily entries for the voyage from London to the Downs (17 February 1727/28), Santiago (23 March 172...
Fragment of a Narrative of an Overland Journey to India
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Contains advice on the different overland routes from Europe to India via Suez and Bussorah [Basra] including beard and clothes to wear ('a European should allow his beard and whiskers to grow, and always wear an Eastern dress'), and currency to take (Venetian chequins).