Indian Antiquary Vol 60

SR No.: 032552
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 394
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
JULY, 1931
at one time secretary at Masulipatan who died of a pestilenon' at Fort St. George on 24 September 1687. See Diaries of Streynsham Master, II, 198, n. 2.
51 Physiology.
3: The correct quotation from Virgil (Ed., VI, 40) is Rara per ignotos errent animalia montes.
68 This is Dryden's rendering of the passage above. See his translation, II. 60-61, of Virgil's "Sixth Pastoral or Silenus."
66 te writor is correct. Madapollam was the health resort of Fort St. George and Masu ipatam in the seventeenth century. “Soly" seems to be a miswriting of "sky."
65 The Easturn Ghats. 66 Gombroor, Bandar 'Abbâs.
67 The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to whom I mferred this passage, infcrms me that "Tara" and "Divi Pivi" are recorded as naznes for species of Caesalpinia, the seerls and fruits of the woody species of which appear to comply with the description given The name "Tantarabois cannnt, however, ho traced..
68 Philip Noden, who went to India as a soldier in 1672 and resided as a freeman at Masulipatam, where he kept a tavern for several years. After the withdrawal of the Company's factory in 1687, he remained there as representative of the English. He died on 12 May 1718.
63 I have failed to trace this individual either in the Fort St. George or Masulipatam Records.
Te Mrs. Noden, wire of Philip Noden. He is mentioned as "being married to an English woman in this towne" (lasulipatam) ir 1679. See Diaries of Streynshamn Master, II, 155,
The cxt document, a description of the island of Junkceylon, like the preceding, is not in Scattergood's writing. It is evidently a copy, for corrections and additions have been made in a different hand. It is contained in a small paper-covered notebook and is marked "No. 68," but there is no indication of the author.
Of internal evidence to fix the date approximately, there is practically none, for the reference to Pulo Condore might equally refer to that island before or after it was abandoned by the English. The account seems to have been written after the brief ascendancy of the French in Junkcegion (c. 1687), since no mention is made of that nation. It seems therefore to belong to the eighteenth century and was probably acquired by Scattergood about the salat time as the monograph on Divi Island. The author of the two accounts may be identical. Tle style is similar and in each narrative is exhibited an eagerness to extend the trade and possessions of the East Indis Company, such as might have been shown by one of its senior merchants on the Coromandel Const.
Although no settlement bad been made by the English on Junkceylon, that island was frequently visited during the period spent by Scattergood in India by "country" ships commanded either by Indians or Europeans, and there are numerous entries of the arrival and departure of such vessels in the Fort St. George Consultations. That intercourse with Junk. ceylon prior to 1712 had been profitable to the Company is shown in a General Letter from Fort St. George para. 77), dated 10 January 1711/12 (Despatches to England 1711-14, p. 53): "Junkcaylon and Quedah where we used to trade considerably, but are now grown places of 80 much villany and corruption that the hazard is much too great for the little or no proffitt."
The description of Junkceylon here given is far less detailed than that by Bowrey in the seventeenth century (Countries round the Bay of Bengal, pp. 235-238). No single place on the island is mentioned by name and the remarks are entirely of a general description, such as might be gleaned in a brief visit. It may therefore be supposed that it is the work either of the commander of a country vessel or one of his passengers from whom Scattergood subacquently obtained it.