FROM THE EAST INDIAN CO. 87 



Bellary, Anantapur, Kurnool and Cuddapah Districts of 

 Madras. 



Bantam — A glance at a map of the world shows that all the traf- 

 fic of the Far East has either to pass the northern or 

 the southern extremity of Sumatra, either round Acheen 

 Head, that is to say, or through the Sunda Straits. 

 The latter route is the nearer : the former is the safer, 

 and is the only one followed by all steamships of the 

 present day. 

 Bantam at the western end of Java, not far from the 

 present city of Batavia, was therefore a central place 

 for the principal factor of the East India Company. 

 The China trade came down to him on the one mon- 

 soon, and the Indian trade on the other: each was 

 handed transhipped and despatched, westward and east- 

 ward, on the succeeding monsoon. 



Barocha — Broach— A port in the Gulf of Cambay between Cam- 

 bay Town and Surat. See Cambay. 



Bemee — Brunei, which has given its name to the whole island 

 of Borneo. Borneo, itself, is mentioned by that name 

 later in this account. 



Bezar stones — Bezoar stones. See the articles in Crawfurd, and 

 Yule and Burnell. 



Breto de. — See Siriangh. 



Calindre : Calendar. — I cannot discover the meaning of this 

 word. Karinda (Hindistani Karandah) is a word mean- 

 ing a clerk, agent or manager. But in this manuscript 

 the word is used as 'if it were the name of a nationality 

 or race. 



Cambaia — Cambay (Khambhayat). The Gulf of Cambay is an 

 inlet of sea lying between the peninsula of Kathiawar 

 and the Indian Coast line. The Portuguese Settlement 

 of Diu lies at its mouth in the Kathiwar Peninsula, and 

 Surat is at its mouth of the Bombay side. The town 

 of Cambay is at the head of the Gulf. It is mentioned 

 by Marco Polo, under the name of Cambaet, as a place 



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