Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Earliest English Contact with Burma; Chapter 2 The Episode of Thomas Samuel; Chapter 3 The Foundation of the Syriam Factory and its Early Prosperity, 1647-52; Chapter 4 The Failure of the Syriam Factory; Chapter 5 Conditions of Trade Experienced by English Merchants in Burma in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 6 Negotiations with Burma, 1680-6; Chapter 7 The Negrais Episode, 1686-7; Chapter 8 Private Trade and the Affair of Bartholomew Rodrigues; Chapter 9 The Mission of Edward Fleetwood and James Lesly to Ava, 1695?6; Chapter 10 The Period of Intermittent Relations, 1697-1723; Chapter 11 Shipbuilding and the Last Years of the Syriam Factory, 1722?44; apps; app The Tragedy of Negrais, D. G. E. Hall; Introduction; Chapter 12 The Origin of the Settlement.; Chapter 13 The Early History of the Settlement.; Chapter 14 Negotiations With Pegu and Ava.; Chapter 15 The Affair of the Arcot; Chapter 16 The Treaty With Alaungpaya.; Chapter 17 The Massacre.; Chapter 18 The Mission of Captain Alves and the Severance of Relations.;

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D. G. E. Hall