A New Account of the East Indies Author:Alexander Hamilton Subtitle: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, Who Spent His Time There From the Year 1688. to 1723. Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to Most of the Countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, Between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon. ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publi... more »cation date: 1727 Original Publisher: printed by John Mosman, and sold at the King's printing-house Subjects: East Indies History / Africa / General History / Asia / General History / Asia / China History / Asia / Japan Travel / Africa / General Travel / Asia / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 'CHAP. XVII. a T)eftription of Bombay, with fome hiftorical Remarks on its Wars, Government and Trade, till Anno 1687. when the Foundation of a War was laid, which proved the Ruin of the then Englifh Eaft-india Company. comes next in Courfe, an belonging to the Crown of England. It was a Part of Katharine of 'Portugal's Portion, when fhe was married to Charles II. of Great Britain, in Anno i66x. Its Ground is fieri], and not to be improved. It has but little good Water on it, and the Air is fomewhat unhealthful, which is chiefly imputed to their dunging their Cocoa-nut Trees with Buckjhoe, a Sort of fmall Fifh- es which their Sea abounds in. They being laid to the Roots of the Trees, putrify, and caufe a moft unfavoury Smell ; and in the Mornings there is generally feen a thick Fog among thofe Trees, that affects both the Brains and Lungs of Europeans, and breed Consumptions, Severs, and Fluxes. After the Marriage, King Charles fent my Lord Malberry, with four or five Ships of War, to take Poffeffion of it, and the King of 'Portugal fent a Vice-roy to de...« less