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In 1675 a decree of the Council of State awarded to M. Jean Oudiette one-fourth of all beaver, with the exclusive right of buying and selling in Canada. In 1676 Frontenac withdrew from the Cie Indes Occidentales all the rights it had over Canada and other places. An ordinance of October 1, 1682, forbade all trade except under license.
Raynal gives two of them for facts in his Histoire philosophique des Indes." "I did not know that," said Vernou. "What were the stories?" "One was a tale about an Englishman and a negress who helped him to escape; he sold the woman for a slave after getting her with child himself to enhance her value.
The canals are the principal feature of the old city of Batavia; but along the streets one detects also many business houses and banks, some of the largest being Chinese. The Hôtel des Indes is located in the new city called Werengen.
In the road of Pondicherry three of the French Indiamen, the Hermione, Baleine, and the Compagnie des Indes, were at anchor, near the edge of the surf, under the cover of a hundred guns mounted on the sea face of the fort. These ships were awaiting the stormy weather, at the breaking of the monsoon, when it would be difficult for the English fleet to maintain their position off the town.
Une élégante forme de politesse. C'est aux Indes, et un Indien rend compte au gouverneur d'une partie de chasse qui a été organisée en l'honneur d'un jeune lord de passage. "Eh bien?" fait le gouverneur. "Oh!" dit l'Indien, "le jeune Sahib a tiré divinement; mais Dieu a été très miséricordieux pour les petits oiseaux." Comme cela est finement dit!
'Mark my vorts, said Darco, as they rolled along the country road towards the station at which they were to intercept the northward travelling Malle des Indes, 'you are dravelling to vame ant vorchune. 'Well,'said Paul, 'that's pleasant to know, isn't it, old Darco? 'It is very bleasant, returned Darco. 'You ant I are an iteal gouple. We fit each other like the two halves of a pear.
Mr. Wade was conspicuous by his absence. They had, indeed, left him in the hotel garden, sitting at the consumption of an excellent cigar. "Join the jocund dance?" the major had inquired, with a jerk of the head towards the Hotel des Indes. But Mr. Wade was going for a drive with Marguerite.
If he is, as I suppose, the Jacques Ignace Courtin, who was afterwards Conseiller au Conseil des Indes, we may be satisfied he did so; but French East India Company Records are a hopeless chaos at the present moment, and all that one can extract from the English Records is evidence of still further suffering.
To this work the following is a proper supplement: 22. Recueil des Voyages de M. Thevenot. Paris, 1681. 8vo. Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi a l'Etablissement et au Progrès de la Campagne des Indes Orientates Hollandaises. Par Constantin. The best editions are those of Amsterdam, 1730, and of Paris and Rouen, 1705; each in 10 vol. 12mo. Recueil des Voyages au Nord, &c.
When Major White and Cornish were left alone in the private salon of the Hotel des Indes when the doctor had come and gone, when the blinds had been decently lowered, and the great man silently laid upon the sofa they looked at each other without speaking. The grimmest silence is surely that which arises from the thought that of the dead one may only say what is good.
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