FROM THE EAST INDIAN CO. 75 



at Agra may bee purchased such privelledges and liberties as 

 might bee expedient ; Likewise the Ambassador will thereby 

 bee more respected in the Court and beare his state with less 

 charges. So that by ar.ie meanes, it were to bee wished that 

 a ffactorie were there settled, and if there bee any hope in all 

 the Indies for the venting of English Cloth, this place may 

 be thought to bee the cheifest, because the Province lyeth so 

 much Northerly haueing so good Convenience for their trans- 

 porting not only to Indestan, but also into Tartary and 

 Cattaya, whereby there is reason to thinck this place like to 

 bee as proffittable as which they might Inhabit without feare 

 of Enemies, Porto grande or the greate hauen of Bengala 

 is so named not because there is greater Trade there then att 

 PequeilO, ffor it can no way bee compared therewith, but 

 because greater shippes can come thether then in the little 

 hauen which is full of sholes. In this hauen lieth Sindine 

 where they make great store of salt, which furnisheth all 

 Bengala. In the tyme of Manuell de Malta and Dom- 

 ingo Carriallo weare in Portogram! e and the fforte of 

 Diange were vnder their power and all Bengala vnder Con- 

 tribution then the Port U galls flourished 



Arra poore kingdome 



yeilding nothing of it but(?) Rice, 



but since the King was assist the 



Portugalles hee tooke and distroied Pegu and from thence 

 brought greate Treasure greate quantitie of Jewells, brasse or- 

 dnance, ffaire women, the white Elephant and the Kinges 

 daughter of Pegu, together with a greate number of Pegu 

 slaues, whereby Arraean is much encreased, and Pegu bee- 

 ing destroyed, all that Trade is come to Arraean from whence 

 they traded both by Sea and land for Arba, where much 

 gould is and the myne of Rubies and Saphires, but now 

 within theise fyve yeares the King of Arba hath taken 



R, A. Soc, No. 54. 1909. 



