Mss Eur Orme India XIX

1, pp. 1-20. Index to a collection of Papers relating to Bantam, Siam, Syriam, &c., from 1672-1744, Copy.

2, pp. 23-25. Letter dated Fort St. George, 18 November 1758, from A. Dalrymple. Copy. Printed in Dalrymple's Oriental Repertory, Vol. I., p. 65, with some verbal alterations and some omissions. Gives some information regarding Cambodia.

3, pp. 26-42. Instructions to Mr. [Thomas] Bowyear, a Supra Cargo in the Country Service bound for Cochin China, what measures to pursue in attempting to obtain a Colony Settlement. Letters to and from the King of Cochin China with Mr. Bowyear's Journal of his Proceedings and Observations. (Extracted from Letters Sent 1695 and Letters Received 1697.) Copy. Printed in Dalrymple's Oriental Repertory, Vol. I., pp. 69-94, with some alterations in the order.

4, pp. 43-52. Extract from a work not named by Mr. Orme concerning the discovery of Easter or (Paas) Island, Verkwikking's Island. Copy. Printed in "A collection of Voyages, chiefly in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, published from original Manuscripts by Alexander Dalrymple," London 1775, where it is styled "An extract of the Dutch Relation [of Jacob Roggewein's Voyage]. Many digressions in the original entirely foreign to the subject are left out." In the preface to the French version of Roggewein's (or Roggeween's) Voyage, the Dutch Relation is said to have been anonymous. It was published under the title of Twee Jaarrige Reyze rondem de Wereld, &c. Te Dordrecht Gedrukt bj Joannes von Braam 1798 4(o).

5,pp. 53-63. Relation of a Memorial which Captain Pedro Fernandes de Quiros presented to his Majesty [the King of Spain] about the settling and discoveryof the fouth part of the World, Australia Incognita. Its great riches, fertility, driscovered by the said Captain (apparently translated from Portuguese ). Copy. Some information regarding de Quiros is given in the Encyclopædia Britannica under Australia. Printed, with other papers by De Quiros, in Dalrymple's "Collection of Voyages, chiefly in the Southern Atlantic Ocean."

6, pp. 64-67. An Account of the Marriage Cereymony of Mr. Peter Cornelius Hasselaar with Miss Gertruyde Margritta Mossle, youngest daughter of his Excellency the [Governor] General of Batavia. Copied from 88. 3.

7, pp. 68-71. Letter, undated, from Luke Scrafton to Orme. Copy. Asks his advice as to how the passage of a Spanish Ship round the Cape of Good Hope can be construed as a violation of the Treaty with extracts from (a) General Letter from Bengal, 6 Sept. 1766; (b) General Letter from Fort St. George, dated 23 Jan. 1767; (c) Anderson's Origin of Commerce; (d) Treaty of Munster between Spain and Holland, 1648; (e) Treaty between England and Spain, 1670.

8, pp. 73-83. The Siques. Copy. The passage "The Siques are in general strong . . . . otherwise no distinction appears amongst them," (pp. 81-82) corresponds very closely to a passage quoted on pages 333-5 of the first volume of "A journey from Bengal to England through the northern Part of India," 1808, by George Forster. Forster ascribes the Memoir, from which he quotes, to Colonel Polier and dates it 1777. The present Memoir calls the prophecy by Guru Govind of the European Conquest of India a "pretended prophecy," and contains no authority for Forster's statement, p. 337:- "The Omichund who took so active, though unfortunate, a share in the revolution which the English effected in Bengal, was a Sicque; as is his adopted son, who is now an inhabitant of Calcutta," so, apparently, Forster makes this statement on his own knowledge of the facts.

9, pp. 84-97. Some account of Ahmad Shah Abdally. Copy.

10, pp. 98-153. A narrative of the transactions at the Court of Delhy from the year 1771 to the present time. Dated . 15 Aug. 1779. Copy. Possibly by Colonel Polier. See 91.17-20.

11, pp. 154.-219. Surat Diary, Methwold President. Copy. 22 Jan. 1635 to March 1636. (N.S., 1636-1637). Copied from 261.1. Index in 240. 2.

12, pp. 221-266. Journal or Remembrancer of passages of Business and other intervening Accidents, begun in Surat the 22nd September [1638], the day that news was received of the Ship "Discovery" anchoring before Damon, Came to our notice and contined unto [30 Oct. 1639], Willm. Fremlens Copied from 262. 1.

pp. [i-ii]. Index [i.e., Table of Contents] to Miscellaneous Vol. Marked. XIX. From this description it appears that this volume does not really belong to the set described under the general head of India, but as it is lettered India XIX. on the back it has been included here.