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The report of Dr. T ijoilve of ISerUle, the mie^ of LANcjisTKa's voyage, and 
atiU more the iiccouutB of Houtman's profitij, first convinced Englitjlimen of 
the great gains tLat vvi^re to be madw ie Mahiyau trade. The Eaat India Com- 
pany was lu €onac-]Tience formed (IGUO), with a t-hiirter for 15 years, after- 
wanLj extended, chielly with tlio o^ijeet of trading to Malaya; and a few 
months iater, this Conjpjiuv nout out the numc Captain (now hlr Jamesj Lan- 
castek) as " Adiiiirar' mer four ycs^cIb, with Dwia iw PUot, lie iiiadu for 
the Nicobars uud afterwards loadtfd with [lejjpt-r and Bent home two oi: liid 
ships Irum Aehin (i(ju2), where he was very well received. Wkh the other 
two he proceeded to Friaiuan and Baatiini, and at tlie latter place established 
a regular factory the same year — sir yeara after that ^et up by the Dutch. 
Large profits were made, aud two other expeditions were despatched ; the tirst 
under Mujuletux, imnxediately ai'ter LA^'CASTKn'y returti (lliOlJ, and another 
ID 1G07. From this timo the voyuge« were at hr.it atinual, and tlien more 
frequent, until, in about 1(115, after the l;llh voyage, the prat-tiee of naming 
eaeh voyage by its consecutive nmnher was ahniidoned. It wu.f not tiil the 3rd 
voyage" of lOn/ that Captaia IJAWKJNa vitiited Surat and the Went Coat^t 
of India, being the tirst Euf^Hnh trader to do so ; though the Portnguetfe hjid 
then been eatiihlished at Goa a century. 
It was still later, not till thatCaplain Hippon in the "Globe," (the 7th 
voyage) on hia way to Malaya, firdt sliowed the English tlag on the Kaat coast 
of India, at ^lasulipatam ;* and at Petapoli, near the Dutch po&sesBion of 
Pulieat, lie left sunie people to form a factory. Thus the Englisih trade with 
Makya had already made .niouie ailvanro Itefnre the Kaat India Company com- 
menced proceedings in India. Until Madras was erected into a separate 
Presidency in Ui.j.r, iiaiitam was the chief tywn of our Eastern possesaioiiii •. 
having been estaldlshed ntarlv Ibrty years before Madras (L6;J9). 
Captain Hippon's voyage' of Itflti iw not only the conimeuccment of 
Britidh Trade in the I^ay of Bengal, but hh journey is also of inter- 
est as the iir?.t made round the Jilahiy I'eninsula in an Englis>h ship. He is even 
eaid to luu^e Ibriiied a factory at PaUmi. This must luvve beeu iu 1613; and 
until quite reeently it was common to find on our English Maps this date, 
under the word ' factory," at Patani. 
From Pataui he paid 'the lirst English visit to iSiam ; and Captain Sabis, 
his fellow voyager, made, about the saino time, the first English journey to 
Japan. 
In 1013 (the 10th voyage) Captain Best, the founder of the Indian Marine, 
with two ''armed" veBsels, visited Aehin. But the success he had just obtain- 
ed over the PDi-tu^iuese at tiunit. and the treaty ratified by the Mogul, had 
already inaugurated a new era for the Company, wliich heucefortb naturally 
devoted more attention to Indian than to Malayan aifaii-B. 
But up to this dato tlie East Ijulia Company batl, iji accordance with its 
name and the terms of its charter, been engaged in Malayan trade only. 
At the time when these Eiigli.^vuien appeared on tlm scene, they had been 
preceded by the Portuguese as ctunpvcrors, or sattlers, in Malacca and elsewhere 
(1511) ; by the 8paiji.sh in the ilanilas (L5ti5-I571) ; by the Dutch in Bantam 
( 1590), Amboyna ( 1(J05 ), ihe M(ducc;irt (UioT), and Timor Kupajig ( 1(513), 
which they had wrciited froiu the Portnguei^e. [ Batavia was occupied (1G19), 
and later still Hatula (HL7), and Padang (UiOD). No permanent factories had, 
before this last date, been established in Sumatra, Biirneo,or on t he East Coast of 
the Malay Peniuttuhi, c.xrcpt that above referred to at Pataui (IBP)), and those 
at Tiku (lUloj and at Indragiri (lG20j, all of w tuck were already abandoued, 
On the Malaeea side of the Petiinwiila, it is true, the Dutch had, at this time, 
opened lactoi'ioii in Pcrak, ICiklah and Junk Ceylon j but that o£ P^rak, wiiioh 
