The Indian Ocean (80 page)

early
48–9
;

sizes
185
;

speeds
186–7
,
210
;

see also
barques, bulk, car carriers, cargo carriers, container ships,
dhows
,
naus
, oil tankers, steamships, tramp steamers

shipwrecks,
see
rites at sea

shrimps
see
prawns

silver
see
bullion

Sindbad the Sailor
102–3
,
108–9

Singapore
251–2
,
262–3

Siraf
41
,
93
,
96

slaves, slave trade
85
,
152
,
156
,
199
,
222–3

Socotra
see
Suqutra

Sofala
176

Sohar
[replica
dhow
]
22

Spate, O.H.K.
4
,
10–11

spice production areas
82

spice trade
82–4
;

Dutch and
145–7
;

Portuguese attempt to monopolise
121
,
127–8
,
138

Sri Lanka
54–5
,
136
,
146
;

Buddhism in
173

Srivijaya
102
,
123

steamships
201–3
;

coastal
242
;

conquer nature
200
,
205–6
;

crews of
209–10
;

improvements
206–7
;

life on board
207–8
,
230–3
,
234–7
;

supplant sailing ships
208–9
;

subsidies for
203–4
;

see also
speeds at sea, tramp steamers

Steensgaard, N.
6
,
152

storms
57–8
,
180–1
,
229–30
,
240
;

see also
rites at sea

strategy
281–6

Suez Canal
210–11
;

effects on shipping
211
,
230–2
;

favourable for British
211
;

passage through
238–9

sufis
245–6
,
248

sugar
259–61

Sulaiman
15
,
16
,
158
,
161
,
162–3
,
183

Sumer
see
Mesopotamia

Sunbeam
[ship]
233–4

superstitions
see
rites

Suqutra
258
,
259

Surat
34
,
134
,
159
,
160
,
164
,
166
,
182–3

Swahili coast
54
,
84–6
,
92
,
96
,
163
;

Indians in
219–20
,
250
;

Islam in
245–7
;

Portuguese in
129–30
,
132
,
140
,
153–4
;

tourism in
276
;

see also
conversions

tea
168

Thapar, Romila
7

Thesiger, Wilfred
42

Thomaz, L.F.F.R.
123
,
125

Tibbetts, G.R.
72

tides
25

tobacco
168
,
195

Tompsitt, Mrs
191–2
,
238

Torens
[barque]
23

tourists, tourism
42–3
,
273–7

trade, long distance
86–9
,
193–4
,
194–6

tramp steamers
208
,
253–6

transfrontierfolk
154

travel, effects of
236–43
;

see also
voyages by sea

travellers' accounts
57–8
;

see also
voyages by sea

Trench, Frederic
227
,
241–2

Triumph of Righteousness
[
dhow
]
244

Turner, Victor
236

Twain, Mark
209
,
237

Varadarajan, Lotika
57

Venice, Venetians
100

Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
[Dutch East India Company; VOC]

see
Dutch Villiers, Alan
23–4
,
112
,
208–9
,
210
,
244
,
252
,
256

Virji Vorah
166

voyages by sea described
57–8
,
109–2
,
181–4
,
187–9
,
225–9
,
253–5
;

see also
boredom at sea, food on board ship,

steamships, storms, rites at sea

Wadias
218

'Walers'
196

Wall, Patrick
282

waves
25–6

Whyte, Richard James
230

winds
19–24

see also
monsoons, storms

Winton, Tim
37
,
273–4

wives of sailors
112

Woodhouse, Joseph
238

Woolf, Leonard
231
,
233
,
237–8

Xavier, St Francis
173
,
175
,
176
,
177

Young, Gavin
210
,
254–6
,
258

Zafari
see
Dofar

Zain-al-Din
124
,
126

Zamzam water
107

Zanzibar
20
,
25
,
54
,
245
,
247
,
258
,
259
;

Indians in
219–20
;

in nineteenth century
191
;

and slave trade
222–3

Zayton
see
Quanzhou

Zheng He
86
,
90–1
,
114