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Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill, Burke explains that although the people of India are not descended of the
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An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, In the Years 1794 and 1795 ...
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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When they lay in Edinburgh castle in 1778, and were ordered to embark for Jersey, they with a number of other men in the regiment, for different reasons, but especially an apprehension that they were to be sold to the East-India Company, though enlisted not to be sent out of Great-Britain without their own consent, made a determined mutiny and encamped upon the lofty mountain,
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In Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa" Viking 2003, speaking of the population of Batavia in 1673, he mentions "a curious group called Mardijkers, who were Portuguese-speaking Asians, most of them freed slaves from Malacca and India who had been converted to Protestant Christianity", and contines in a footnote: "And who under the peculiar rules of the VOC Dutch East-India Company, were, as Christians, permitted to wear hats: the only non-Whites in Batavia allowed to do so."
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A Bold Epistolary Rhapsody Addressed to the Proprietors of East-India Stock in particular, and to every individual of the Welch, Scottish and English nations in general.
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On the coast are Goa, belonging to the Portuguese, which is their staple for East-India goods; and Bombay, a little island and town belonging to the English.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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East-India ships, which were in the river, and their troops were totally defeated at land by Colonel Ford.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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He will see the choleric East-India uncle, with a red face, and a Malacca cane held by the middle, stumping about, and bullying his nephew, -- "a young rascal," -- or his niece, -- "you baggage, you."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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Sudan, so as to supply, in a few years, the whole of the interior of Africa with British and East-India manufactures.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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British manufactures, with East-India goods, and with colonial produce.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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