FROM THE EAST INDIAN CO. 97 



The Dutch established a factory at Syriam in 1631; 

 The English were some years later. Both were 

 expelled about the year 1670. The English factory 

 was re-established in 1698 by the Government of 

 Madras. In 1740 the Peguans drove out the Burmese, 

 but left the British alone. In 1743 the Burmese re- 

 took the town. They held it only three days, when 

 the Peguans recaptured it, and, suspecting" the British 

 Agent of duplicity, burnt his factory and expelled him. 

 The town went through many vicissitudes in the wars 

 between the Peguans and the Burmese in the eight- 

 eenth centuries. See article Syriam in Yule and Burnell. 



Solor— Sulu. The Sulu islands or archipelago, for there are 

 150 islands, extend between Borneo and the Mindano 

 Islands, the Southern group of the Philippines. 



St. Thome— Now a southern suburb of Madras city. 



Succadana — A place on the western Coast of Borneo. In the 

 early part of the seventeenth century, the East India 

 Company had great hopes of it. Its principal reports 

 were wax and diamonds. One account indeed (Calen- 

 dar of State Papers, Vol. I. No. 522) says that " the 

 best diamonds in the world " were to be procured there. 

 It was once the seat of a Javanese Settlement, and 

 the name, given probably by the Javanese, means, in 

 Sanskrit, " the parrot's gift." 



Surat — This was a great port at the mouth of the Gulf of 

 Cambay (See Cambaia). When the merchandise of 

 the East was carried to Europe through the Eed Sea 

 and thence overland, it was one of the most important 

 trading places in India. With the discovery of the 

 passage round the Cape of Gocd Hope, its importance 

 diminished : and now, with silting-up of the gulf, trade 

 has deserted it. 

 The follcwing account of it in the Storia do Mogor 

 (Vol. I p. 61) is interesting frcm its mention of the 

 trade of this part of our part of the world. 



R. A. Soc, No. 54, 19C9. 



