The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, Vol. 3: Being Curious Reminiscences Illustrating Manners and Customs of the British in India During the Rule of the East India Company From 1600 to 1858, With Brief Notices of Places and People of Those Times, &C., &C., &C, The first step taken was the formation of a settlement in Madagascar, to serve as a half-way house on the Indian voyage, but this was unsuccessful. Most of the settlers very soon perished, either from the deadly climate or the hostility of the natives, of the survivors, some repaired to the Isle of Bourbon, and others proceeded to India, where in the meantime the first French factory had been established at Surat in the year 1668. Masulipatam, on the opposite coast, was founded in the next year, and in 1672 St. Theme (near Madras) was captured from the Dutch, but was retaken two years after, when Pondicherry was founded in its stead. Chandernagore, in Bengal, was founded in 1688, up to which time the progress of the French had gone on unchecked. Pondicherry was taken by the Dutch, in 1693, but was restored at the peace of Ryswick, Henceforth it was the seat(52)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.