...factory at Batacola southward of Onoar, but about the year 1670 an English ship coming there to lade, had a fine English bull dog which the chief of the...for instance when two English factors were sent from Surnt on nn embassy to Arungzebe at Delhi, where they were made to approach the throne, with their...

...traveller read the names of John Best and seventeen other Englishmen, who, according to the epitaph, " were sacrificed to the fury of a mad priesthood, and an enraged mob."* Another interference with native prejudices, accompanied this time by dishonesty, nearly led to the...

...were recorded the names of John Best and seventeen other Englishmen, who, according to the epitaph, "were sacrificed to the fury of a mad priesthood, and an enraged mob." In the time of Haidar there was a considerable trade in pepper and sandal wood from this place, and...

...chief of Carwar sent a stone to be put on the grave with an incription "That this is the burial-place of John Best with seventeen other Englishmen who were...the fury of a mad priesthood and an enraged mob."— Hamilton's New Account, 1720. sacred Banian or religious fig ? It was clearly the will of God that...

...stone to be put on the grave with this inscription : — ' This is the burial place of John Best and seventeen other Englishmen, who were sacrificed to...of a mad priesthood and an enraged mob/ The English did not renew their factory there." The event of which we are about to write happened at a time when...