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the English in their Inst moments—Tho execution—
Strango happenings—Effect produced in England by
the episode—A belated settlement—What was “ the
Massacre of Amboina ” ?—The English withdraw from
tho Eastern islands ...... 220-239
CHAPTER XVI.—THE ENGLISH IN THE PERSIAN
GULF
Portuguese supremacy in the Gulf challenged—Goa,
the Portuguese capital in the East—Sir Robert Shirley
the Shah of Persia’s ambassador—English open a trad­
ing factory in Persia—Shah Abbas’s hatred of the Portu­
guese—His gift of Jask to the English—Ruy Ere ire de
Andrade, the Portuguese commander, conducts a llect to
- tho Gulf—Portuguese ultimatum to tho Shah—Action
between the Portuguese and the English off .Task—
English licet under Captain Shilling drives off tho Portu­
guese—English llect under Captains Blyth and Weddell,
assisted by a Persian land force, attacks and defeats
Portuguese at Kishm—Baffin, the Arctic explorer, killed
in tho fight—Surrender of Ruy Freire—Ormuz attacked
and occupied—Downfall of the Portuguese power in tho
Gulf................................................................................. 240-255

CHAPTER XVII.—THE ENGLISH SECURE A PER­
MANENT FOOTHOLD IN INDIA
Joint English and Dutch attack on Bombay—A Dutch
iconoclast—Effect of the cruelties of tho Inquisition at
Goa on the English and the Dutch—English attack on
the Portuguese at Surat—Sir William Courton’s associa­
tion—Acquisition by tho English of territory on the
Coromandel Coast—Foundation of Fort St. George
(Madras)—Occupation of Bombay proposed to the East
India Company—Importance of tho position—Bombay
forms part of the dower of Charles II’s Queen, Catherine
of Braganza—Sir George Oxcnden’s mission to Western
India—Royal expedition for tho occupation of Bombay
—Portuguese Viceroy declines to surrender the island—
English troops landed at Angediva, near Goa—Bomba}'
handed over and occupied by the English—Dutch and
French opposition—The island ceded by Charles H to