CABOOL, city of, ii. 16

Coffee, Indian, i. 465

Calcutta, origin of, 106; the English
driven from, 114; Black Hole of,

ib.;
retaken by Clive, ib.
Canton, occupation of the heights

of, by the British, ii. 350
Cape of Good Hope, discovery of,

472; colonized by the Dutch,
473; conquered from them by the
British, 474; native inhabitants,
475; Hottentots 479; Bushmen,
480; Kafirs, 483; Natal, 486;
progress of the Cape colony, 488;
animal kingdom, 490; cattle, 491;
sheep, 492; wine, 493; Kafir-
trade, 494; capabilities and pro-
spects, 495
Cashmere, picture of the celebrated

valley of, 24; productions, 29;
population and character, 30
Caste, its general influence upon the

Hindoo character, i. 15; con-
nection with religion, 154; the
frame-work of Indian society, ib. ;
distribution of the people under
the system, 155; to some ex-

tent a fiction of the lawgivers,
156; probable origin, 157; per-
petuation of its prejudices by the
public life of the natives, 158;
influence of the Mahomedan con-
quest, 159

Celebes, ii. 77; its inhabitants the
Bugis, 101

Ceram, 99

Chand, Sultana, her heroic contest
with Akbar, i. 55

Cha-poo, capture of, ii. 359
China, history of, 145; patriarchal

stage, 148; feudal stage, 149;
consolidation of the empire under
the Hans, 155; military dynasty
of Tang, 159; uniform progress
and fate of the dynasties, 160;
struggle with the Tartars, 161;
a Tartar dynasty mounts the
throne, 165; which gives place
to a Chinese dynasty, 166; new
Tartar conquest, 167; glance
round the frontiers, 172; topo-
graphical sketch of China Proper,
179; theory of the government,
192; emperor and his cabinet,
199; education, 200; revenue,
205; ceremony, 206; army, 207;
law, 208; public works, 213; cen-
sorship, 214; religion, 218; lite-
rature, 231; society and manners,
235; progress of luxury, 239;
houses, 243; dress and personal
appearance, 247; ceremony, 250;
women, 252; infanticide, 254;
clans, 256; marriage and concu-
binage, 257; general state of
society, 258; productions and
resources of the country, 264;
agriculture, 280; manufactures,
282; fine arts, 290; science, 292;

commerce, 294; intercourse with
the Portuguese, 305; Japanese,
306; Dutch, 307; Russians, 311;
English, 313; opium war, 336
Chin-hae, capture of, 353; attempt
of the Chinese to recapture, 357
Chin-keang-foo, capture of, 363;
slaughter of their families by the

defeated garrison, 366
Christianity, progress of in China, 228
Chuenpee, capture of, 341
Clans of China, 256

Clive, captures Arcot, i. 113; recap-
tures Calcutta, 114; gains the
battle of Plassey, 115

Clove, ii. 99.

Cochin China, 140

Commerce of India, its early course,
i. 83; in the hands of the Phe-
necians, 84; Romans, ibid.; its
commodities, 86; its effect upon
the western world, 89; in the
hands of the Arabs, ib.; jealousy
of the Greeks, who re-open its
early route, and make Constanti-
nople the entrepôt of the world,
90; interrupted by the crusades,
91; in the hands of Venice and
Genoa, 91; monopoly of by the
Venetians, 92; Portuguese, 93;
and Dutch, 98; its principal sta-
ples, 102; revenue derived by
the Company from commerce, 410
Confucius, character of his doctrine,

ii. 151, 220; contention of his
sect with the government, 153;
triumphant under the Hans, 156
indifferent to religion, 227; Con-
fucian literature, 231

Constantinople, becomes the entrepôt
of the world, i. 90; sack of the
city by the Turks, 91

118

Cotton-goods imported by the Romans,
i. 86

DIAMONDS of Borneo, ii. 126
Diego Garcia Island, 470
Drugs imported by the Romans, i. 87
Dutch East India Company, origin of,

96; constitution, 98; transac-
tions in the Archipelago, ii. 76—
in Japan, 393

Dyaks of Borneo, 139
Dye-stuffs imported by the Romans,

i. 86

EAST INDIA COMPANY, English, ori-

gin of, 96; early history, 99; their
alliance of friendship with the
Dutch dissolved by the massacre of
Amboyna, 101; their settlement
at Madras, 103; obtain the privi-
lege of free-trade from Shah
Jehan, ib.; their settlement at
Bombay, ib.; obtain the power
of admiralty jurisdiction, 104-
and of making peace and war, ib. ;
compelled to abandon Bengal, ib.
-and to succumb to Aurungzebe,
105; constitute Calcutta a sepa-
rate presidency, 106; assist the
Rajah of Tanjore, 112-and take
part against the French in a
disputed succession of the Dec-
can, ib.; driven by the viceroy
of Bengal from Calcutta, 114-
which is retaken by Clive, ib.;
constituted masters of Bengal by
the results of the battle of
Plassey, 115; struggle with the
French in the Deccan, 201; se-