A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 9 | Page 2

Robert Kerr
Shah Jehanguire, Mogul Emperor of Hindoostan
Introduction
§1. Journey from Surat to the Court of the Mogul, and Entertainment there, with some Account of the Customs of the Country
§2. Occurrences in June, July, and August, 1616, from which the Character and Dispositions of the Mogul and his Subjects may be observed
§3. Of the Celebration of the King's Birth-day, with other Occurrences, in September, 1616
§4. Broils about Abdala Khan, and Khan-Khannan: Ambitious Projects of Sultan Churrum to subvert his eldest Brother: Sea-fight with a Portuguese Carrack; and various other Occurrences
§5. Continuation of Occurrences at Court, till leaving Agimere, in November, 1616
§6. Sir Thomas Roe follows the Progress of the Court, and describes the King's Leskar, &c.
§7. A New-year's Gift--Suspicion entertained of the English--Dissatisfaction of the Persian Ambassador--English Ships of War in the Indian Seas
§8 Asaph Khan and Noormahal protect the English from Hope of Gain.--Arrival of Mr Steel.--Danger to the Public from private Trade--Stirs about a Fort
SECT. VII. Relation of a Voyage to India in 1616, with Observations respecting the Dominions of the Great Mogul, by Mr Edward Terry
§1. Occurrences during the Voyage from England to Surat
§2. Description of the Mogul Empire
§3. Of the People of Hindoostan, and their Manners and Customs
§4. Of the Sects, Opinions, Rites Priests, &c. of the Hindoos; with other Observations
SECT. VIII. Journey of Thomas Coryat by Land, from Jerusalem to the Court of the Great Mogul
§1. Letter from Agimere to Mr L. Whitaker, in 1615
§2. Do. from Agra to his Mother, in 1616
§3. Some Observations concerning India, by Coryat
SECT. IX. Account of the Wrongs done to the English at Banda by the Dutch, in 1617 and 1618
SECT. X. Fifth Voyage of the Joint-stock by the English East India Company, in 1617, under the Command of Captain Martin Pring
§1. Occurrences on the Voyage out, and at Surat, Bantam, and Jacatra
§2. Dutch Injustice, and Sea-fight between them and Sir Thomas Dale
§3. Departure for Coromandel, with Occurrences there, and Death of Sir Thomas Dale.--Capture of English Ships by the Dutch; and Occurrences at Tecoo
§4. News of Peace between the English and Dutch
§5. Voyage of Captain Pring from Bantam to Patania and Japan
§6. Voyage from Japan to Bantam, and thence to England
SECT. XI. Voyage of the Ann-royal, from Surat to Mokha, in 1618
SECT. XII. Journal of a Voyage to Surat and Jasques in 1620
§1. Voyage from England to Surat
§2. Voyage from Surat towards Jasques
§3. Account of a Sea-fight with the Portuguese
§4. Second Sea-fight with the Portuguese
§5. Sequel of the Voyage
SECT. XIII. Relation of the War of Ormus, and the Capture of that Place by the English and Persians, in 1622
SECT. XIV. Account of the Massacre of Amboina, in 1623
SECT. XV. Observations during a Residence in the Island of Chusan, in 1701, by Dr James Cunningham; with some early Notices respecting China
§1. Voyage to Chusan, and short Notices of that Island
§2. Ancient and modern State of the Country, and coming of the English to reside there
§3. Manner of cultivating Tea in Chusan
§4. Of the famous Medicinal Root called H-tchu-u
§5. Removal of Dr Cunningham to Pulo-Condore, with an Account of the Rise, Progress, and Ruin of that Factory
§6. Some Account of the Factory at Pulo-Laut, with the Overthrow of that Factory, and of the English Trade in Borneo
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Published 1st July 1813
A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.
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PART II. BOOK III.
(CONTINUED.)
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CHAPTER X.
--Continued.
EARLY VOYAGES OF THE ENGLISH TO INDIA, AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
SECTION XV.--Continued.
_Eighth Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1611, by Captain John Saris_.
§5. _Farther Observations respecting the Moluccas, and the Completion of the Voyage to Japan_.
The 10th of April, 1613, the Spanish commandant sent me a message, requesting me to stop till the next morning, when he would visit me along with the sergeant-major of Ternate, who had arrived with a letter from Don Jeronimo de Sylva, allowing them to trade with me for different things of which they were in want, and to satisfy me in what I had requested; wherefore I resolved to stop a while longer, to see if we could do any good. Expecting Don Fernando next day, according to promise, and hearing nine guns from their fort, we supposed he was coming: But it proved to be for the arrival of the prince of Tidore from the wars, who was returned with the heads of 100 Ternatans. His force in the expedition in which he had been engaged, consisted of sixty men armed with matchlocks, two brass bases and three or four fowlers. He had over-thrown Key Chilly Sadang, the son of the king of Ternate, whom the Dutch had brought over from Ternate to prevent the natives of Machian from supplying us with cloves. While on his return to Ternate after our
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