abeLungu, mixed-race tribe, see also Tshomane 241–2
Abercromby, Captain Burnet, 183
Ackroyd, Peter, 247
Adair, Captain Walterhouse, 23, 51, 123
Adamson, Alexis, 43
Admiralty, 189–90
Africa, and British perceptions, 88–93, 125–9
Africa, dangers of coast, xvi, 63
African Hospitality (George Morland) 79–80
Agulhas current, xiv, 59, 63
Agulhas Cape, see Cape Agulhas
Ajax, French man of war, 38
Algoa Bay, xv, 86n, 149, 151, 155, 172, 213, 240
Allex, lascar, 169
Amatola mountains, 216
amaMholo, 241n
amaPondo, see Pondo
Angel, Jacob, seaman, 138
Angola, Portuguese settlement, 98, 102
Arcot Interest, 24–5
Argo, salvagers, 257
Arne, Thomas, 45
Ascension island, 85
Aubrey, Captain Jack, 34n
Austen, Jane, 231
ayahs, 3, 50, 75, 110, 167, 169, 171, 220, 240
Balasore Roads, 244
Banks, Joseph, 88, 104, 163, 257n
Barber, Francis, 90n
Barchini Joseph, seaman, 69–70
Barnards Wharf, Rotherhithe, 34
Barwell, Richard, 15
Bashee River, 138, 139, 142, 148, 149, 171, 241
Bati, castaway, 241
Battores, a Portuguese, 155–6
Bay of Bengal, 30, 33, 34, 35
Bazley, William, 229
Beale, Thomas, third mate, 41–4, 49, 57, 62, 64–5, 71, 84, 106, 109, 123, 139, 171, 173, 177
Belfast, 47, 163
Benares, 184, 185, 250
Bencoolen, 7
Bengal, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 22, 23, 32, 41, 51, 52, 145, 175, 183, 185, 186, 190, 240, 244, 251
climate, 13
famine, 14
Bess, English girl castaway, see Gquma
Bessie, daughter of Gquma, 237, 238, 239–40
Bethnal Green, London, 247
Betty, ayah to Lydia Logie, 167, 169, 174, 175, 177, 220, 221, 222
‘Bianco’, see Feancon, Francisco
Bird Island, xv, 240
Birkenhead HMS, 172–3
Blair, Isaac, coxswain, 39, 70, 121, 131, 151
Blake, William, 90
Blechynden, Kathleen, 191
Blechynden, Lydia, see Logie, Lydia
Blechynden, Richard, 186–7, 191, 207–211, 215–6, 224
Bligh, Captain William, 213–4, 215
Bock, Johann, 178–9
Bombay, 14
Bomvana people, 97, 112, 139, 200, 217, 236, 241
Boswell, James, 5
Bounty HMS, 213
Boyce, William, 45
Brillant, French man of war, 38
Bristol Journal, 18
British Library, 257n
Brown, Sarah, 19, 182, 186
Bruce, James, 89
Bryan, John, soldier, ‘Umbethi’, 28–9, 109, 195–206, 223, 225, 227, 254, 255, 257
Buffalo River, 142
Burke, Edward, 5
Burns, Robert, 89
Bushman’s River, 151, 160
Busteed, H. E., 24
Bute, Indiaman, 49
Butterworth, Cape 234
Cabe, chief, 99–100
Cabral, Fernão, 99
Caffres, see Xhosa
Calcutta, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 15, 17, 20, 22, 26, 57, 91, 143, 175, 179, 184, 185, 186–7, 190, 207–10, 221, 244, 250
description, 7
life of English in, 12–13
Calcutta Gazette, 207–8, 209, 215, 224
Camdebo district, 213
Canary islands, 241
cannabis, 97, 200
Canton, 7, 10, 143
Cape Agulhas, xiii, xiv, xvi, 169
Cape of Good Hope, xiii, 59, 60, 62, 86, 89, 98, 102, 107, 108, 110, 160, 165, 168, 169, 180, 187, 190, 211–5, 216, 223, 224, 226, 227, 233, 241, 246, 254, 258
Cape Padrone, 151, 152
Cape Recife, 155
Cape St Francis, 213, 246
Cape Verde islands, 241
captivity narratives, 231–2, 248–9
Carissa microcarpa (wild plum), 127
Carter, George, 145–6, 147, 148, 152, 153, 154, 163, 230, 232, 244–5, 247
Casanova, 45
castaways (besides Grosvenor), 85, 98–103, 203
Cato, George, 230n, 240
cattle, importance of, 96, 101, 150 160–1, 203
Cawo, grandson of Gquma, 242
Cerathotherium simus (black rhinoceros), 127
Cetani, chief, 237, 238
Ceylon, 27, 33, 36, 62
Chambers Repository, 230
Chambers, Lady Frances (née Wilton), 4, 5, 6, 11, 17, 18, 19, 52, 183, 184–5, 186, 187, 250
Chambers, Sir Robert, 4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 18, 24, 30, 36, 51, 175, 183, 184–5, 186, 187, 250
Chambers, Thomas, 6, 18, 19, 32, 51, 119, 171, 173, 174, 183, 185, 186, 220, 222, 249–50
Chandpal Ghat, Calcutta, 5
Chapman, Indiaman, 59, 61,
Chase, John Cantilivres, 233
Chowringhee, Calcutta, 5, 13
Circanio, Domenico, seaman, 114, 124
Clive, Robert, xv, xvi, 3, 4, 13, 14, 18, 22, 177n
Cochin, 98
Collett, John, xv
Colley, Linda, 112n, 231, 232, 248–9
Collingwood, Captain Luke, 89
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, 257
Cook, Captain James, 87–8, 90, 104, 163, 213
Copenhagen, 188
Corneille, Daniel, 182, 222
Cornwall, 47, 121n, 245
Cornwallis, Lord, 54
Coromandel coast, 25, 33, 240
Cossimbuzzar River, 3, 4
Couch, William, captain’s steward, 124, 147, 149–50, 151, 155
Coxon, Harriet (née Sherburne), 7, 41
Coxon, Captain John, 8, 9, 10, 12, 18, 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 38, 47, 49, 52, 54, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 67–9, 71, 74, 83, 85, 86, 90, 91–2, 93, 104–5, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121–2, 135, 140, 147, 162, 167, 179, 188, 195, 209, 219, 220, 243, 244, 256, 257n, 263–4
appearance, 7
troubles with Macartney, 20–2
record, character, 39–44
conduct leading up to wreck, 63–5
decision to start for Cape, 106–9
abandoned by crew, 123–4
abandons passengers, 170–4
death, 176–7
Coxon, Joseph, 41, 63
Cruikshank, George, 233, 242
Cuddalore, 8, 36, 37
Currie, Richard, 249
Custis, Betsey, 152n
Da Cruza, Antonio, cook, 44
Da Gama, Vasco, 62, 87, 98
Dahomey, 88
Daily Advertiser, 180
Dalindyebo, Tembu paramount chief, 242
Dalrymple, Alexander, 61, 74, 86, 87, 90, 106, 108, 122–3, 131, 145, 146, 149, 162, 171, 1195, 210, 222, 244, 247, 257n
conducts inquiry, 87–9
Dalzel, Archibald, 89
Daniell, Thomas, 3, 146
Daniell, William, 146
Dapa, chief, 235–6, 237, 239, 242
D’Auvergne, Captain, 190
De Almeida, Francisco, 98
De Bougainville, Louis, 88
De Cabreyra, Captain, 100–3, 126
Defoe, Daniel, 89, 146, 158, 203, 205, 231, 248
Delagoa Bay, 86, 90, 108, 19, 203, 213, 234
Delhi, 257
De L’Isle, Captain Jean, 28, 51, 123, 124
Dempster, Captain John, 250
Dennis, Eleanor, 29, 52, 119, 171, 173, 220, 222, 223, 226, 227–8, 229, 238
Deptford, London, 189
Deptford, Indiaman, 208, 209
De Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, 176
desertion, 42
D’Espinette, Colonel Charles, 28, 51, 52, 124, 130, 131
De Suffren-Saint-Tropez, Admiral Pierre, 35–8, 52
Diamond Fields, Cape, 178
Dias, Bartholomeu, 98, 151
Dibdin, Charles, 46, 206, 230
Dickens, Charles, 145, 153
Di Lasso, Francisco, seaman, 48, 71, 134, 147–8, 149, 151, 155, 165, 166, 167, 169, 187, 245
Directory for the East Indies, xiv, 63
Dodington, Indiaman, xv, xvi, 63, 86n, 240–1
Dolphin, Indiaman, 240–1
Downs of Kent, xiii, 35, 47, 240
Drummond, David, 42–3
Drury Lane Theatre, 206
Dublin, 43, 47, 243
Duchess of Devonshire, ship, 49
Duminy, Francis, 181
Dutch, at Cape, 62, 86, 105, 107, 111, 138, 140, 144, 155–6, 160, 165, 168, 187, 189, 211–5
Durban, 94, 240, 255
Durban Museum, 249
Earl of Dartmouth, Indiaman, 22, 27, 49, 59, 61
Earl of Hertford, Indiaman, 180
East India Company, English, xiv, xvi, 3, 5, 6. 7, 8, 12, 13, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 40, 50, 54, 55, 87, 91, 110, 112, 171, 174, 209, 240, 243, 250
inquiry into wreck, 180–3
response to wreck, 188–90
East India Company, Dutch, 160, 168
East India House, Leadenhall St, 180, 182
East London, South Africa, 142
East London Museum, 259
Edkins, John, caulker, 49
Egosa Fault, 125–6, 128
elephant, see Loxodonta africana
Elizabeth, privateer, 25, 26
Ellis, William, soldier, 28, 124, 133, 139
Emma (Jane Austen), 231
Endeavour, HMS, 104
Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Die (Mozart), 232
Equator, 42, 60
Euphorbia triangularis, 126
Evans, Jeremiah, seaman, 74, 148, 149, 151, 154, 155, 165, 166, 167, 168, 246
Faku, Pondo paramount chief, 200n, 204n, 226
Faku, son of John Bryan, 204–5
Farewell, Francis, 227
Fay, Eliza, 11, 12, 16, 18, 19, 55, 57n, 59–61, 85, 184
Feancon, Francisco (‘Bianco’) seaman, 48, 130, 161–2, 163, 164, 169, 187, 245
Fell, David, 154
Ferreira, Christian, 156
Finsbury, London, 135, 246
Fitzgerald, Robert, seaman, 153
Fletcher, Sir Henry, 189
first fruits ceremony, see inxwala
Foikan, lascar, 169
Fort Frederick, Trincomalee, 44
Fort St George, Madras, 20, 25, 28
Fort William, Calcutta, 5, 7, 13, 207, 221
Fowke, Francis, 184
Fowke, Margaret, 184, 185, 188
Francis, Philip, 14, 16, 17, 23–4, 212
French, fleet in Bay of Bengal, 35–8
Frontier wars (Cape), 110, 142, 160, 172, 233, 242
Fruel, William, seaman, 153
Fynn, Henry, 205
Gainsborough, Thomas, 9, 79
Gangate, chief, 100, 101
Garrick, David, 45
Genoa, 48, 71, 147, 245
George III, 88
Gela, son of Gquma, 237
Geza, chief, 202
Glover, Joshua, seaman, 93, 109, 195, 199, 205–6, 223, 225, 227
Goa, 98,100
Godfrey, ship, 208
Goldsmith, Oliver, 5
Gondwanaland, 125–6
Gordon riots, 45n
Gordon, Colonel Robert, 210, 212, 213, 214, 215–6, 223, 224
Gqubile, grandson of Gquma, 240
Gquma (‘Bess’), 222, 224, 225, 226, 229, 234, 236–8, 240–2, 249
Grand, George, 23–4
Grand, Madame, 23–4
Great Fish River, 143, 148, 151, 154, 157, 158, 212, 213, 217, 228n, 233, 248
Great Trek, 217
Gregorie, Captain Charles, 243–4, 245
Griffiths, Simon, bosun’s mate, 84
Grosvenor, Richard Earl of, 34
Grosvenor, Indiaman (first) 34, 41
Grosvenor, Indiaman, (second) 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 18, 20, 29, 30, 31, 37, 81, 85, 94, 98, 104, 108, 110, 128, 144, 168, 174, 201, 209, 213, 223, 225, 228, 229, 241, 244, 247, 253n, 254
tonnage, 6
cargo, 21
capacity, 22–3
authorised to sail, 27
dimensions, history, 33–5
officers, 39–44
crew, 46–9
passengers’ quarters, 50–2
living conditions, 54–8
encounters storm, 61–2
nears Africa, 64–6
wreck, 67–75
inquiry, 87
final toll, 169, 172
inquiry, 180–3
hunt for treasure, 255–9
Grosvenor treasure syndicates, 256
Gulliver’s Travels, 248–9
Habberley, Elizabeth (née Galloway), 247, 249
Habberley, George, 247
Habberley, Sophia, 247
Habberley, William, seaman, 37, 47–8, 49, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 81, 86, 91, 92, 93, 104, 106, 110, 112, 114, 115, 116, 119, 121, 122, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 145, 146, 189, 171, 174, 177, 187, 188, 213, 222
background, 135–144
life among Xhosa, 157–67
later life, 246–9
Habberley, William, 247
Halsewell, Indiaman, 121, 173
Hannah Hewit, The Female Crusoe, 206, 230
Happy Deliverance, xv, 86n
Harris, fifth mate, 123
Harris, Captain William Cornwallis, 127–8
Harrison, John, 42, 60
Hati, castaway, 241
Hastings, Warren, 3, 4, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 55–6, 177n, 211, 212n
Haydn, Joseph, 45
Hayes, purser, 112, 123
Heart of Oak, 45
Hercules, American ship, 228n
Hickey, William, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15–16, 23, 57, 72
Hippopotamus amphibius, 127, 137, 198–9
Hoakim, ayah to Mary Hosea, 167, 169, 174, 175, 220, 221, 221
Hone, John, 19
Hogarth, William, 45
Holthausen, Jan, father, 216, 217
Holthausen, Jan, son, 217
Hosea, Charlotte, 11, 18, 19, 51, 52, 186, 249–51
Hosea, Frances, 5, 16, 51, 79, 84, 114, 118, 124, 170, 174, 176, 214, 215, 220, 221, 229, 249
Hosea, Mary (née Brown) 3, 4, 6, 9, 18–19, 30, 31, 51, 52, 54, 55, 59, 61, 79, 84–5, 91, 106, 110, 118, 120, 121–2, 123, 167, 170, 171, 173, 184, 185, 186, 190, 214, 215, 219, 220, 221–2, 229, 230, 249–50, 251
character, 11–12
marriage, 16
death, 174–6
Hosea, William, 3–13, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 36, 39, 51, 52, 54, 55–6, 57, 61, 71, 79, 84–5, 91, 92, 106, 119, 121–2, 123, 170, 171, 173, 178n, 179, 182, 186, 190, 215, 219, 220, 221–2, 249–50, 251, 264
character, 14
career, 15–16
marriage, 16
plot against Hastings, 16–17
resigns, 18
race to catch Grosvenor, 30–2
offers seamen reward, 124
death, 174–6
Howes, John, seaman, 139, 140
Hooghly River, 4, 7
Hooghly district, 15
Hughes, Admiral Sir Edward, 25, 27, 31, 33, 35–8, 39, 52
Hunter, John, ship’s gunner, 49, 123
Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore, 17, 22, 28, 35, 36, 52
Hynes, John, seaman, 47, 48, 67, 73, 90–1, 107, 109, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 128, 129, 133, 137, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 166, 169, 187, 195, 196, 243–5
Imat, lascar, 169
India, see Bengal, Calcutta, Madras
India Gazette, 190
Indiamen
Bute, 49
Chapman, 59, 61
Clyde, 53
Deptford, 208
Dodington, xv, xvi, 63
Dolphin, 240–1
Earl of Dartmouth, 22, 27, 49, 59, 61
Halsewell, 121, 173
Hillsborough, 35
Manship, 243–4, 245
Nicobar, 169, 177
Normanton, 240–1
Osterley, 35
Pacific, 39
Prime, 49
Rochford, 22
Rose, 249
Stretham, xvi
Valentine, 59–61, 62, 185
Indian Ocean, 44, 52, 58–9, 60, 62, 76, 94, 98, 115, 126, 157, 245, 254
Inner Passage, 62
inxwala, first fruits ceremony, 200–1, 204
James, Colonel Edward, 27–8, 32, 51, 52, 54, 56, 84, 106, 109, 116, 121, 123, 124, 133, 139, 170, 174–5, 219, 220, 259
James, Sophia (née Crockett), 27–8, 32, 51, 54, 55, 121, 123, 167, 170, 174–5, 215, 219, 220, 229, 230
Jekwa, castaway, 241
Johannesburg, 256
John Murray publishers, 146
Johnson, Samuel, 5, 89, 187
Jonas, seaman, 139, 143
Jones, Evan, xiii, xiv, xv
Jongintaba, chief, 242
Juan Fernandez island, 85, 205
Jubaeopsis caffra (Pondo coconut) 127
Kaffir Kuils River, 216
Karoo, 216
Kedgeree Roads, 6, 10, 209, 245
Kei River, 94, 95, 140, 142, 160, 166, 167, 178–9
Keiskamma River, 142, 150
Kenton on Sea, Cape, 151
Keyes, Captain Reginald, 240
Khan, Mirza abu Taleb, 250
Khoikhoi, 98, 164, 165
Kipling, Rudyard, 172
Kirby, Percival, 149, 240, 249, 258, 263–4
Krom River, 246
Lambasi, scene of wreck, 83, 104, 111, 195, 221, 223, 240, 241, 244, 254, 255
Langeberg mountains, 160, 166
Larkins, Mary, 209
Larkins, William, 11, 209
lascars, 42, 48, 70, 84, 92–3, 105, 121, 123, 124, 130, 139, 140, 167, 169, 171, 175
Law, Thomas, ‘Master Law’ 29, 52, 57, 119, 124, 134, 145–7, 149, 150, 151–4, 163
Law, Thomas, father, 29, 152n, 184
Leadenhall Street, see East India Company
Leary, Barney, landsman, 47, 90, 119, 148, 149, 151, 154, 166, 169, 180, 182, 183, 188, 203, 244–5
Le Vaillant, François, 162, 212
Lewis, Captain John, 60–1
Lewis, Thomas, seaman, 46–7, 63, 65, 105, 116, 120, 128, 130–1, 133, 137, 146, 147, 151, 152, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 169, 187–8, 245
Liechtenstein, Henry, 226
Lillburne, Henry, steward, 57, 62, 109, 124, 131, 134, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151–4, 155, 157, 161, 163
Limerick, 47, 243, 244
Literary Club, London, 5
Logie, Alexander, chief mate, 10, 48, 49, 51, 62, 68, 84, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 114, 118, 123, 170, 171, 174, 176, 209 215n, 219, 220, 221
record, 41–3
Logie, Lydia (née Blechynden), 10, 32, 51, 55, 58, 84, 108, 110, 114, 118, 120, 123, 167, 170, 171, 174, 176, 184, 185, 186–7, 188, 189, 190, 191, 208–11, 214, 215, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224–5, 230
first report of abduction, 182
London, 3, 5, 10, 34, 45, 47, 88, 135, 180, 206, 243, 247
London Chronicle, 181
London Gazette, 88
Long, Edward, 88
Loveday, Lieutenant, 189
Loxodonta africana, 127, 142, 217
Lunae Montes, ‘Mountains of the Moon’, 88
‘Long Voyage, The’, 153
Loss of the Grosvenor Indiaman (William Habberley’s journal) 247, 249
Lusikisiki, 255
Macartney, Lord, 20, 21, 25, 27, 35, 177n, 188, 213
Macaulay, Lord, 10, 53
McDonach, John, 42
McDonald, George, carpenter’s mate, 176, 179
Macpherson, John, 17
Madagascar, xv, 59, 62
Madras, xiii, 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20–2, 30, 35, 49, 51, 52, 54, 59, 87, 109, 124, 171, 177n, 188, 213, 240, 247
corruption in, 24–7
Madras Infantry, 196
Magellan, Fernando, 87
Maldive islands, 58, 62
Mamaretta, lascar, 169
Mambethi, daughter of John Bryan, 202, 204
Mamguntu, chief’s wife, 198
Mandela, Nelson, 242, 259
Mangaliso, Lugubu ka, 94
Manship, Indiaman, 243–4, 245
Marryat, Captain Frederick, 231
Marsh, Elizabeth, 232
Masefield, John, 243
Matteroe, lascar, 169
Matthews, Edward, 42
Mattys, lascar, 169
Mauritius, 59
Maviti, stream, 111
Mbotji, see Umbotji
Mbukwe, 228
Mdushane, 242
Metcalfe, Sir Theophilus, 250
Milbourn, William, midshipman, 73, 84
Mission, The, 231n
Mixon, William, quartermaster, 65, 123
Mkweni River, 111, 112, 197, 203
Mlawu, son of Gquma, 237
Mntengwane, 228
Mobaruk ud-Dowla, Nawab of Bengal, 4
Monmouth, HMS, 37–8
Morland, George, 79–80, 89, 230
Morley mission, 236, 239
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 181, 182, 183
Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser, 180
Morris, Jan, 12, 157
Mossel Bay, 98
Mount Sullivan, 129–30
Mount Thesiger, 129–30
Mozambique, Portuguese settlement, see also Delagoa Bay 98, 99
Mozambique Channel, 62
Mozart, Wolfgang, 232
Mr Midshipman Easy, 231
Msingali, 201–2
Mthikrakra, Tembu paramount chief, 242
Mtwa, chief, 97
Muir, William, 42
Muller, Heligert, 165, 166, 167–8, 169, 212, 216, 246
Murshidabad, 3, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 175
Mxowane, 228
Mysore, 195
Nadir Shah, 257
Nardini, Sebastiano, seaman, 114
Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor, 145–6, 232, 245, 247
Natal, 53, 62
Natal Mercantile Advertiser, 255
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 145
Nawab of Arcot, 22, 24
Nawab of Bengal, 3, 4, 15, 16
Ndlambe, Xhosa chief, 217, 242
Nelson, Horatio, 243,
Newman, Charles, 23, 27, 51, 52, 54, 55–6, 84, 106, 116, 120, 121, 123, 171, 174, 177–8, 198, 213, 258, 264
Newquay, Cornwall, 47
Newstead, Robert, seaman, 43
Newton, Captain George, 240
Ngangelizwe, Tembu paramount chief, 242
Ngqungqushe, Pondo paramount chief, 200, 204, 226n
Nguni-speaking tribes, 94, 142, 203, 227, 241, 260
Nicobar Islands, 59
Nicobar, Indiaman, 169, 177
Nile River, 88–9
Nixon, ship’s surgeon, 84, 123
Njanya, chief, 96
noble savage, 79, 87–8
Nongqabane, Mahaya ka 228
Nonibe, grand-daughter of Gquma, 242
Normanton, Indiaman, 240–1
North, Lord, 22
North America, 54, 111, 231
Northern Lights, 64
Nosepesi, 242
Nossa Senhora de Belem, 100
Nossa Senhora de Boa Viagem, 102–3
Nossa Senhora de Natividade, 102–3
Nqolisa, 228
Ntafufu River, 115, 121, 122, 124, 125, 170, 219, 220
Ntlane, chief, 197–8, 200, 201, 202
O’Brian, Patrick, 34n
Octopus, salvage company, 259
Omai, Pacific islander, 87
Orient, French man of war, 37–8
Orme, Robert, 14–5, 16, 17, 190
Oudh, 17, 175
Our Fathers Are Come, 233
Outeniqua mountains, 216
Outer Passage, 44, 58, 61, 62
Pacific Ocean and noble savage, 87–8
Pacific, Indiaman, 39
Page, Thomas, ship’s carpenter, 124, 133, 134, 139, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150–1, 161
Palmer, Samuel, 238, 239
Pandolpho, seaman, 69–70, 124
Parkinson, C. Northcote, 40
Paro, Sebastiano, 130, 162
Patna, 15
Peacock Throne of the Moghuls, 257
Peggy, ship, 154
Perneau, Frenchman, 214, 216
Perranporth, Cornwall, 47
Phoenix reclinata (wild date palm), 126
Pierce, Captain Richard, 173
Pigot, ship, 213
Pisani, Louis, 168, 212
Plassy, battle of 4, 13
Plymouth, 8, 35
Pollard, Robert, 67n
Pollilur, battle of, 22, 28, 29, 109
Pondicherry, 24, 28, 30
Pondo, chief, 96, 97, 197
Pondo people, 96–103, 105–6, 108, 110, 111, 113, 116–7, 119, 120, 139, 163, 166, 177, 197–205, 226, 228, 241–2, 258
Pondoland, see Wild Coast
Pondomise, chief, 96
Pondomise people, 97, 103, 104, 200
Popham, Stephen, 27
Port Alfred, 151
Port Edward, 94
Port Grosvenor, see also Lambasi, 255, 256, 258
Port St Johns, 129
Portuguese, 86, 98–103
Poto, 198, 202
press-ganging, of crewmen, 8
Price, Robert, 47, 57, 62, 71, 84, 124, 128, 134, 147–8, 149–50, 151, 165, 166, 169, 187–8, 245, 246
Prime, Indiaman, 49
Providien, battle of 37–8, 131
Ptolemy, 88
Putterlickia verrucosa (warted bastard spike-thorn), 127
Qanda, chief, 236, 237
Qawukeni, Pondo great place, 201, 260
Qiya, chief, 99
Qora River, 139–40, 142, 167, 217
Qunu, 242
Raleigh, Alfred, 255–6
Ramat, lascar, 169
Rand Daily Mail, 257
Rea, Robert, bosun, 49, 69, 72, 116, 123, 177
Reed, armourer, 155
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 6, 79, 87
Richardson, Captain, 30, 31
Rio de Janeiro, 8
Roberts, Elizabeth, 47, 245
Robinson Crusoe, 89, 146, 158, 203, 231, 248
Rochford, Indiaman, 22
Rodney, HMS, 31
Roman, lascar, 169
Rose, Indiaman, 250
Roteiro, Portuguese chart, xvi
Rotherhithe, London, 34
Rousseau, French soldier, 28
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 88
Rowlandson, Mary, 231
Royal Academy, London, 6
Royal Navy, 27, 30, 190, 227, 246, 247
in Bay of Bengal, 35–8
Rule Britannia, 45
Rumbold, Sir Thomas, 15, 18, 25, 177n
Rundell, Francis, 13
Sadras, battle of 36, 38, 131
St Columb Minor, Cornwall, 245
St Helena, 43, 59, 6o, 63, 182, 185, 222, 250
St Mary’s Church, Madras, 22, 28
St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 180
Sally, ayah to Sophia James, 167
Salmond, Captain Robert, 172
Sampson, H. F., 178
Samson, Captain James, xiv, xv, xvi, 240–1
San people, 98, 114
Sango, chief, 222, 237
Santsabe, chief, 97
São Bento, 98–9, 100
São Joao, 108n
Saunders, Robert, 29, 52, 119, 173, 220, 222
Schama, Simon, 125
Scheepers, Karl, 166
Scheepers, Stephanus, 213, 216
Schwarz, Ernest, 225
Sea Fever, 243
seamen, life on an Indiaman, 44–8
Selkirk, Alexander, 85, 205
Shaka, Zulu king, 204, 205, 227, 228, 235
Shakespeare, William, 80
Shaw, William, second mate, 47–9, 63–4, 65, 68, 74, 84, 92, 93, 108, 109, 119, 125, 129, 131, 133, 135–6, 137, 146, 148, 171, 174, 176, 219
leads breakaway from captain, 123–4
death, 138–9
Shaw, William, missionary, 225, 234, 238
Shear, Christopher, ship’s poulterer, 73, 84
Shepstone, William, 236
Sherburne, Joseph, 7, 41
Shipwreck of the Grosvenor (George Carter), 145
Shoreditch, London, 135, 249
Shrewsbury, William, 234–5
Sigcau, King Mpondombini, 255, 259–60
Sihula, chief, 97
Sipho, wife of John Bryan, 199–200, 201, 202, 204–5
Slave Trade (George Morland), 80
slave trade, 89–90
Smirke, Robert, 67n, 215, 230
Smith, General Richard, 15
Society of Artists, 80
South African Magazine, 225
South Park Cemetery, Calcutta, 186
Stanford le Hope, Essex, 246
Stephens, Philip, 189
Stepney, London, 247
Stockdale, James, soldier, 139, 141
Stout, Captain Benjamin, 228n
Strelitzia nicolai (wild banana), 126
Stretham, Indiaman, xvi
Stuart, James, 228–9
Sundays River, 151, 160
Superb, HMS, 37
Surprise, HMS, 34n
Sussman, John, 113, 133, 139, 143
Swallow, packet, 10, 54
Swellendam, 165, 166, 167, 171
Swift, brig, 189–90
Swift, Jonathan, 248
Table Bay, see also Cape of Good Hope, 62–3, 98, 160
Talbot, Captain George, 38–9, 51, 54, 56, 61, 63, 70, 72, 73, 75, 84, 106, 116, 121, 123, 130–1, 151
Talleyrand, Prince, 24
Taylor, George, seaman, 42
Taylor, George, merchant, 9–10, 21, 27, 32, 51, 52, 54, 56, 84, 123, 131, 133, 139, 141–2, 143–4, 145, 149, 157, 158, 177, 213, 233, 246, 248
Tembu people, 97, 132, 139, 168, 200, 217, 227, 242
Tempest, The, 80
Terra Australis Incognita, the Great Southern Continent, 87
Tezani, stream, 83, 110, 196, 254, 255, 258
Thames River, 7, 34, 45
Theobald, James, 208, 215
Thomson, William, 146, 147
Thrale, Hester, 89, 187
Tiretta, Edward, 208, 209–10
Tom Bowling, 46
Topping, Richard, xv
Tower of London, 180
Trade in the Eastern Seas, 40
Trafalgar, battle of, 246
treasure, on Grosvenor, 253–7
Trincomalee, 36, 37, 44, 49, 54, 59, 75, 169, 209
Trotter, fourth mate, 133, 139, 143
Trout, runaway slave, 113, 114, 117–20, 129, 176, 241n, 260
Tshomane people, 100, 222, 223, 224, 226, 235–6, 241
Tsitsikama forest, 216, 246
Turner, Sidney, 255, 258
Umbethi, see Bryan, John
Umbotji River, 118, 120, 258
Umgazana River, 125, 132, 133, 217, 223, 226, 238
Umgazi River, 241n
Umkambati River, 254
Umpande River, 133
Umsikaba River, 96, 98, 99, 228, 253
Umtakatyi River, 168, 217
Umtamvuna River, 94, 95, 96
Umtata River, 96, 137, 139, 142, 147, 148. 166, 176, 234, 236, 241, 257n
Umtentu River, 96
Umzimkulu River, 204, 205
Umzimpunzi River, 120
Umzimvubu River, 95, 96, 100, 102, 129–30, 132, 137, 142, 162, 168, 176, 222, 235, 241, 253, 254
Valentine, Steve, 258–9
Valentine, Indiaman, 59–61, 62, 185
Van de Graaff, Cornelis, 214
Van der Merwe, David, 213
Van der Walt, Tjaart, 217
Van Plettenburg, Joachim, 165, 211–2, 213
Van Reenen, Jacob, 217, 218, 223, 225, 226, 229, 232, 238
Van Riebeeck, Jan, 160
Venice, 48, 245
Walker, Captain, 59
Walthamstow, London, 9, 144, 246
Wampanoag people, 231
Wapping, London, 148, 169, 243, 247
Ward, Ned, 188
Warmington, John, seaman, 46–7, 90, 119, 122, 133, 137, 147, 149, 151, 154, 155, 166, 168–9, 180, 182, 188, 245–6
Washington, George, 152n
Waterfall Bluff, 104, 114, 125
skirmish at, 115–7
Webb, William, xiv, xv
Webster Martin Luther, 256–7
Wells shipbuilders, 34
Werlee, Noel Catherine, see Grand Madame
Wesleyan missionaries, 234–6, 239
Wild Coast, Pondoland, 94–5, 125–30, 228, 253–5, 259–60
wildlife, 127–8
Williams, John, merchant, 9–10, 21, 27, 32, 51, 52, 54, 56, 84, 113, 123, 131, 133, 138, 139, 140, 141–2, 143–4, 145, 149, 157, 158, 177, 213, 233, 246, 248
Williams, Sarah, 9, 246
Wilmot, Mary, 29, 52, 119, 173, 220, 223, 227–8, 229, 238
Wilton, Joseph, 6
Windsor, 250
Winterhoek mountains, 213, 216
witchcraft, 201–2, 204
Woodward, John, quartermaster, 70, 84
Woody Cape Nature Reserve, 152
Worcester, HMS, 38, 131
wreckers, 47, 121n, 122
Wren, Thomas, seaman, 130
Xhosa people, 95, 96, 97, 110, 139–40, 142–4, 149–50, 151, 152, 158–65, 167, 213–4, 217, 226, 233, 234, 246, 248, 249
Yarmouth, coastal ship, 18, 19, 30–2, 51
Yorktown, 54
Zoffany, John, 23, 145–6, 185
Zong, slaveship, 89, 91
Zulu people, 95, 96, 163, 337, 229, 234, 236
Zuurveld, 166
Zwartberg mountains, 160