OR THE

East India Trader's Complete Guide;

CONTAINING

A GEOGRAPHICAL AND NAUTICAL DESCRIPTION

Im. 2274

OF THE

MARITIME PARTS OF INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES,
INCLUDING THE EASTERN ISLANDS, AND THE TRADING

STATIONS ON THE PASSAGE FROM EUROPE;

With an Account of

THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMERCE, PRODUCTIONS, coins, weights, and
MEASURES; THEIR PORT REGULATIONS, DUTIES, RATES, CHARGES, &c.
And a Description of

The Commodities imported from thence into Great Britain,
and the Duties payable thereon;

TOGETHER WITH

A MASS OF MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, COLLECTED DURING MANY YEARS'
EMPLOYMENT IN THE EAST INDIA SERVICE, AND IN THE COURSE

OF SEVEN VOYAGES TO INDIA AND CHINA.

ORIGINALLY COMPILED

BY THE LATE

WILLIAM MILBURN,

OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE:

A careful Digest having been made from the Papers left with his Executor, and the whole
incorporated with much additional and valuable Matter,

BY THOMAS THORNTON, M. R. A. S.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN,

LEADENHALL STREET.

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10. Gulph of Persia

Preface

Section 1. The Madeiras

2. The Canary Islands.

3. Cape de Verd Islands

4. South America ..........

5. Cape of Good Hope

6. East Coast of Africa

7. Islands off the East Coast of Africa

8. The Red Sea, or Gulph of Arabia..................

9. Coast of Arabia to the Persian Gulph.....................

11. Coasts of Persia, Scindy, and Guzerat

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