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... unchallenged, began to build a more lasting empire in America and the Orient. It was in 1607 that Virginia was planted; and three years later Captain Hippon, in the service of the East India Company, established an English factory at Masulipatam in the Bay of Bengal. ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... now bound to the Gulf of Persia, and from thence to the coast of Coromandel, only to touch at Surat; but the chief of the supercargo's design lay at the Bay of Bengal, where if he missed of the business outward-bound he was to go up to China, and return to the coast ...

— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe

... always for the Cape de Bona Speranza, and so to the East Indies. I had heard some flaming stories of Captain Avery, and the fine things he had done in the Indies, which were doubled and doubled, even ten thousand fold; and from taking a great prize in the Bay of Bengal, where he took a lady, said to be the Great Mogul's daughter, with a great quantity of jewels about her, we had a story told us, that he took a Mogul ship, so the foolish sailors called ...

— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe

Words linked to "Bay of Bengal" : bay, Indian Ocean, embayment, Andaman Sea