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  • Poolo Ai, protest of natives of, against Dutch oppression, 186; Dutch and English fleets off, 188
  • Poolo Roon, Courthope obtains cession of, 190; retrocession of, 239; final occupation of by the Dutch, 239
  • Portugal and England, conclusion of peace between, 263
  • Portugal and Holland, disastrous effect of war between, 264
  • Portugal and Spain, grievous wrongs inflicted on the English by, 29
  • Portugal and the Spice Islands, 179
  • Portuguese fleet defeated off Surat by Best, 120
  • Portuguese fleet defeated off Surat by Downton, 127
  • Portuguese in the Persian Gulf, 241, 245
  • Portuguese, Mogul Government declares war against, 123
  • Portuguese opposition to the English, at Acheen, 47; in India, 66, 75, 111, 116, 120, 124, 240
  • Portuguese ships captured in the Straits of Malacca by Lancaster, 27, 49
  • Powle, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
  • Preachers on the East India Company's ships, 71
  • Presents intercepted by Jehangir, 154
  • Priaman, Lancaster visits, 51
  • Price, Abel, a prisoner at Amboina, 216; under torture implicates his colleagues in a charge of conspiracy, 217
  • Prince Henry, at the christening of the Trade's Increase, 169; godfather to Sir Robert Shirley's son, 243
  • Psalm Book at the Hague, a relic of Amboina, 230
  • Psalm sung by Lancaster's men before the King of Acheen, 61
  • Purchas's opinion of Downton, 129

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  • Raffles, Sir T. S., on the Spice Islands, 179
  • Rajapur, proposed retirement of the English to, 263
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter, founds the Colony of Virginia, 21
  • Ramsey, Ephraim, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
  • Raymond, George, commands expedition to the East, 23; is lost in a storm off the Cape, 24
  • Reaal, Laurence, Dutch Governor-General, seeks composition with Courthope, 193; issues proclamation against the English, 195;demands the evacuation of Poolo Roon, 196
  • Recife, Lancaster's attack on, 29
  • Red Dragon, The, 40, 52, 117
  • Red Sea, Sir Henry Middleton returns to the, 112
  • Red Sea Trade in ancient times, 92
  • Rejib Aga, makes Sharpeigh captive at Aden, 96; plays the confidence trick on Sir Henry Middleton at Mocha, 100; directs attack on the English, 102; begins to "sing a new song," 109; poisons Laurence Femell, 110
  • Religious observances of the Company's servants, 71, 310
  • Roe, Sir Thomas, selected as Ambassador to Jehangir, 133; ancestry of, 133; arrives at Surat, 136; received by Jehangir, 135; opposed by Prince Khurrum, 137; forbidden to visit the Court, 138; is restored to favour, 139; Jehangir's liking for, 140; presents miniatures to Jehangir, 141; in present at one of Jehangir's drinking bouts, 142; horrified by an instance of Jehangir's cruelty, 143; presses for a treaty, 145; views of as to permanent representation at the Mogul Court, 145; describes Jehangir's departure from Ajmere, 147; describes the