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PROCEEDINGS OF . THE INDIAN PLAGUE COMMISSION. VoLuME II. EVIDENCE FROM llrn JANUARY 1899 ro 8T11 FEBRUARY 1899. Pnges Evidence 1-832 Li~t of A)lpondioo• 333 Appendices 335-542 LIST OF WITNESSES. ' TwENtr·JIPTI! DAY: Urn JA~'UARY 1899: AGnA. ~. E. H. Hankin l-f4'1 Lientcnant-Coloncl S. J. Thomson, C.I.E., !.M.S. 24-32 .• TwENTt·SIXTI! D.n: 12m JAN11A!tt 1899: AGnA, ' . LiontcMnt-Colonel S. J. Thomson, C.lE., I.M.S. (further el&tnincd) ... , 32-36 Mr. E. F. L. Winter, I.C.S. •.. 36-M Rai Bahodur L~la Gobin_djo., ... • 54.-0S . TIS).I!EVENTI! DAY: 13TII J1.x¢:nr. lBllll>(;,n.l..... Mr. E: A. Kondnll, I.c ..s. ... ... ... ... :..• " .l. ... 55-59 Cnptmn J. Ohnytor.Whd;e, !.M.S. ... ... · ... 59--63 Cnptniu H. W. Elphick, U!.S. ,.. ... .. 63-67 Li••ntcnnnt·Colonc! A. l\[, Crofta, .M.S. 67-71 Liontcnnnt-Coloncl A. Adnms, UI.S. ... 72-·7<1 \ \ T"'r.Hr-mGurn Dn: liTn JA~UARY 1892': AGn>. ·. I Cnptnin J. IV. Grant, I.!U.S. ,..·•, I H-77 ' \. "" Y·NINTII n.. r: 1flTU JA:<11.1RY 18~9: L.1110IIE. Captain C. IT. Jamo•, IJLS .... 77-1~6 ' 0 .Tmr.\lf.Tit DAY: 2nrn J.!.NlTARr 1Afl9: L.\Tionr.. • c:=:> ~nptain E. Wilkinson, !.M.S. .l. 106-118 Onptain W. R, Clm·ko, I.M.l'!. 118--122 M1!hommnd Nimz Shah, or Gnrshnnk.~r 122-12.~ Cnptal11 Dnviclson, I.:M:.S. 123-12:L ~~or 'Ross, Dnrh~m Light Infnntry... ' 12~ "~'. D. Moffit~. R.A.M.C. •.. 127-123 ~.---·· "" 'l:innT\~ -PmST D.1t: 2hT J.<NUAnr 1899: LAnor.E. l\fnJor ll••ll. ,Skiunor, R.A.~fJ). ..~ o., 128-130 ·~ iv Pages TJilltTf.S1.COIID Du: 23aD JAN11.lllt 1899: KAru.oni. Mr. R. Gile 131-141 Liouten~ni:-Coloncl W. McOlogbry, I.M.S. .... 141-146 Tllmtt·tniRD Dn: 24'lu JAli11.LRY 1899: KAl!.Acnr. Mr. S. M, Kaka .147-J58 Mr. W. L. Seymour ... 158-161 ,Lieutenant 0. A. Law 161-163 Mr. L. J. Mountford, I.O.S. ... 163-166 Mr. R, Giles (further csamiitcd) 166-167 TmntNounm D•t: 25rn J•w•n.:r 189~, ~AI!Acm. Captain G. W. Jouuoy, !.M.S. 167-173 Lieutenant W. J. Niblock, !.M.S. 173-179. Mr. Gidumnl Lekhuj 179-180 Tmnn-rrrr1,1 D.u: 2&rn JA~U.UY 1899: KAIIJ.cax. '· Mr. H. F. Braysou ... 181)-186 ·Aasistnnt-Surgeon G. C. McMullen 186-187 Mr. J. Slndcn, I.C.S. 187-190 Colonel W. McConaghy, !.M.S. 190-194 Mr. E. Mackenzie ... 4 ••• 194-196 Cnptniu Normau Rainier, !.M.S. 19S..:200 Lieutenant Niblock, !.M.S. (further examined) 200-20~ Tnmrr-srxm D•:r: 27m J.a.~UAUY 1899: KAn.t.cur. Mr. J. Sladcn, I.O.S. (further examined} 202 Mr. S.}[, Kakn (further examined) ·•· · 202-204 ' I TnmTNEVE~"'H Du: 28TH JANUARY 1899: KAIIJ.cux. Dt·. V. E. Nazareth ... 204-207 .... • TnmTY-EIGntu DAY: 30Tn JANUARY 1899: CUTcu • ~ Mnjor G. E. Hyde-Cates, I.S.C. , .. I 207-219 Mr. B. J. Domnnin ... 219-220 "' Mr. H. S. Dc1·o ... ;' 221-224 " TumTY·NI!ITn Du: In ~'sonu.lllt 1899: A tDAD.!.D • .._Mr. U. F. Silcoek, l.C.S. 224-2~ T,ientonnnt-Coloncl M. L. Bartholomcusz, i.?J.S. 227-231 Khan Dahndur llomunji Edniji Modi ... 231-235 Anistuut-Snrgoon b!. M. Mody 2J5-236 ~ !j;. X. do Souza, I.O.S. •.. 236"":2Jil Fon~:~n DA~.' 3BD ~-~BUA8Y ..18U9: }nonA. Mr. P. D. Coopor L ----~ .• ~Oo-242 Mr. R. J. l'etigara ... o ~" Dcw•n llnitndnr V. b!. Samal'th I" ... 242-250 Ir· 250-255 o ~rr. Maynard ... i.. ~[r. Nowrosli D. Desai ' ' . 255-257; .... 257 CONTENTS. PAGE Dedication vii .Preface ( ix Editor's Introduction .. 1 :Memorandum on the Administration of Malabar by his \Vorship J. V. Stein van Gollenesse 43 Memorandum on the Administration of i\[alabar by the Right Worshipful Adriaan Moens . • • . • ,, . ~ , ~. • . , • , • • 97 Appendices to the Memorand~m of the Right Worshipful A. Moens 24g !NnEx • , ,., • 265 LIST OF ILLUSTRA~IONS. PAGE Political Map of South Malabar, A.D. 1740 .. .. .. .. 1 Plsn of the City of Cochin, A.D. 1668 .. .. 11 Prospect of the City of Cannanore .. .. 13 Chart of the Cochin River .. .. 15 Prospect of the City of Cochin 17 mellitation TO HIS HIGHNESS THE RAJA OF OOOHIN. Two HCNDRED AND TWENTY. YEARS AGO HENDRIX ADRIAAN VAN RHEBDE, ' BAilON OF MYDRECHT, SOMETIME GoVERNOR OF THE DUTOH SETTLEMENTS IN MALABAR, DEDIOATIID TO ONE OF YouR HIGHNESS'S PREDECESSORS THE THIRD voLUME oF THE " HoRTus MALABARICos '' oR GARDEN oF MALABAR, oNB OF T~E MOST MAGNlli'ICENT BOTANlOAL WORKS EVER PUBLISHED. j BEli!ARK1NG THAT WHEN HE WAS .AT HIS WORK Ol' COLLEOTING1 PORTRAYING UD DllSORIBING THE PLANTS OF MALABAR HE HAD EVER BEFORE HIS MIND THE PRESENTMENT OF THE PRINCE WHO HAD VOUCHSAFED BIM SUCH VALUABLE ASSISTANCE IN THE MATTER j THAT BE \VOULD NEVER FORGET WHAT HE OWED THAT PRINCE j AND HAD THEREFORE DEDICA'XED A VOLUME OF THE " HORTUS MALABARIOUS " TO HIM IN OUDER THAT HIS HIGHNESS'S li'AMB AS A MAECENAS MIGHT BE SPREAD TRBOUiiHOUT THE WHOL& WORLD. I VENTURE TO DEDICATE THIS LITTLE WORK TO YOUR HIGHNESS IN GRATEFUL AOKNOWLEDGMBNT OF YOUR HIGHNESS's KINDNESS .AND OF THE ASSISTANCE l!ENDERED TO ME BY THE OFl'ICBRS OF YouR HIGHNEss's STA'rB, AND ESPECIALLY TH!l D!WA~, MR. A. R. BANBR.n1 I.C.S., AND THE DIS'l'RIOT MAGISTRATE, MR. C. .A.cHYUTA M.BNON, PREFACE. THE Dutch records in the Madras Government's record-rooms contain material for a chapter in the history of European enterprise in India. Samples of this material have been published in Dutch in previous volumes of this series. The present volume contains a sample in English. The series has been published with the view of preserving for the future historian of the Europeans in India material the safety of which in the manuscript form cannot be gua.ra.nteed. Also partly in order to bring to public notice the existence of the material. I begt\n to read the manuscripts three years ago, being at that time interested, mconnection with my official work, in the history of the La.ccadi ve Islands and their former rulers, the Ali Rajas or Sea Kings of Cannanore; and it then appeared to me, and I submitted to the Madras Government, that some of the records were worth printing or even worth translating. The Madras Government undertook the publication of the series at their press, and 15 volumes have now either appeared or are in an advanced state of preparation. This, the 13th volume of the series, contains translations of the two first. Their translation was begun in the year 1907. But it soon became apparent that accurate translation would not be possible without more' knowledge of the history, the organization and. the technicalities of the Dutch East India Uompany than my collaborators or I possessed. I then undertook a course of reading with the view of qualifying myself for the task. The well-known Dutch man of letters, Mijnheer Mnurits Wagenvoort, who has made a special study of the history of the Dutch in the East, and was then travelling in the Madras Presidency, was g~od enough to advise me what to read, and I have found Mr. M. Nijhoff, book-seller, of the Hague, a serviceable book-purveyor. On fi,nisbing the course of reading I had undertaken, I re-wrote the drafts of translations which had' been prepared, and added an introduction and some notes. The time at my disposal has, however, been very limited, and what I now offer by way of introduction and commentary to these translations is intended merely to indicate to others some of the sources for a history of the Dutch in Malabar-a virgin subject for the historian. 'rhe whole work is only a small contributioh of material with such aids towards the understanding of it as a person with little leisure for study has been able to collect in a country in which there are. no first-class libraries. It is hoped that the statements made are, as.far as they go, .accurate .. At any rate each statement can be verified by reference to the authority-printed book, manuscript, or living person- which I have been careful to quote for it. X J>Bllll' ACll, The title of the book perhaps requires explanation. The name " Malabar, is now sometimes by usage proceeding from ignorance confined to the British district of Malabar, the native states of Travancore and Cochin being aSSIUDed to be "Travancore" and '' Cochin" and not ":Malabar"· I use "Malabar'' of the country of the Malayalam nation; which was, at the time these Dutchmen wrote, all parcelled out into " Native States, " what is now the British district of Malabar not being considered then by any one exclusively or peculiarly Malabar. The responsibility for this vo!lliDe of the series is entirely wine. It is not pub· lished "By Authority " and the Madras Government accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the translation or of the history or for the opinions expressed. 6th Fehruaru 1910. A. GALLETTI. .... 0 c .. 1: ... • oe 0 oe <"' I'll I"' o( () ROUGH MAP "' (' SOUTH MALABAR 1MW hleludod In tile N1'1t of Tra-" ''"' I' c.CIIIII-Iilt liar- IIOIIMIIOftl fllrmtrtr Dutallaow lriUIM (') lloowiiiC NATIVE STATES a. DUTCH POSSESSIONS ... about A. D. 1740 ..,.... on a modeM rND ~OFIIIW POLITICAL MAP OF SOUTH MALABAR A.n 17..n INTRODUCTION. I IN the year 1795 the Dutch factories and possessions in this Presidency fell into The Madras Dutch Man 1tloripts.