Authors: Marjorie Shaffer
paradise on earth
Parennin, Dominique
Parr, Thomas
Patrickson, Thomas
Peabody, Joseph
Pearson, M. N.
Peele, Jonathan
Peele, Willard
Pelisson, father
Penang
Penguin Island
penguins
Peperi
(black pepper)
pepper.
See also
black pepper
anticancer properties of
Benkoolen not benefiting from
berries
as biological enabler
Brazil's plantations of
chili
China's consumption of
coins traded for
Cubeb
as culinary ingredient
English East India's colony for
English East India's increased imports of
Europe's consumption of
foot rot disease problem for
healthful properties of
India attracting people because of
Indian Ocean in search of
land purchase with
limited applications of
long
as medicine
Melegueta
Mundy's observations on
oil
Piper genus of
Piper only true
as poison antidote
production
Roman meals using
scientific studies of
Sumatra largest producer of
Sumatra largest supplier of
tonics using
value of
Vietnam leading grower of
white and black
woody climbing vine of
pepper coast
pepper gardens
Benkoolen's ruined
East India Company exploiting
England setting quotas for
forced cultivation increasing production of
Mundy writing about
northern Europe hastening
in sixteenth century
pepper sack (pfeffersack)
pepper ships
fishing stocks noted by
U.S. last
U.S. voyages not completed and
pepper trade
Carnes' Sumatra journey in
da Gama using force and hostages in
of Dutch
England entering
England major competitor in
English East India seeking ports for
European hazards on
Europe's profits in
mariner's logs kept for
of northern Europe
opium bartered for in
Portuguese imports in
of Sumatra
U.S. and Sumatra ending
U.S. entering
U.S. using false weights in
wildlife vulnerabilities along the way of
peppercorns
Pepperers' Guild of London
pepper-pot
(piperatoria)
Perez, Augustine
pfeffersack (pepper sack)
Philips Stephens
(ship)
Phillips, Stephen
physical features
physicians
Pierrepont, Hezekiah Beers
pilotfish
pimento
pinang
pink peppercorn
pintadoes
(painted cloth)
Pinto da Fonseca, António
piper
piper betle
Piper longum
(long pepper)
piper nigrum
(black pepper)
piperatoria
(pepper-pot)
piperidines
piperine
as cancer treatment
inflammation quelled by
search-and-destroy mode of
pirates
news story of
reputation of
U.S. debate over
U.S. ships attacked by
Pires, Tomé
plague
plant species
poison
Poivre, Pierre
Porter, Samuel
Portugal
all-ocean route sought by
Asian dominance of
carrack losses of
criminals as ship's crew of
European women lacking and
Goa captured by
India sailed to by
Indian Ocean travelers distaste for
Jesuits supported by
Lancaster's plan of plundering ships of
Lancaster's success against
Malacca conquered by
Malaysian world intrigues of
pepper imports of
spice trade control of
Treaty of Tordesillas signed by
Potomac
(U.S. ship)
Prahus
(ship)
Prakash, Om
precious metals
Prest, John
price controls
The Principal Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
(Hakluyt)
private trader
profitable commodity
Protestants
Putnam
(ship)
Pyrard, François
Qianlong
Qualah Battoo
battle of
debate of Downes attack on
U.S. sailors indiscriminate killing at
U.S. setting fire to
Queen of the East
Quincy, Josiah
Raffles, Sophia
Raffles, Stamford
background of
campaign against Dutch of
commanding geographic location sought by
death of
Dutch obsession of
Dutch's absurd policies comments of
explorations of
extensive losses of
Minangkabau journey of
physical features of
Singapore treaty with
slavery abolished by
saving Sumatra wish of
world's largest flower and
Rafflesia
(flower)
Rajah
(ship)
Read, George C.
Red Dragon
(ship)
Reid, Anthony
religions
religious crusade
reptiles
Réunion
revenue sources
Reymers, Margaret
Reynolds, J. N.
Ricci, Matteo
Rites Controversy
Rodrigues
European ships passing by
Leguat's tortoise account on
reptile removal from
Romans
Rome
Russell-Wood, A.J.R.
sanctified beggars
Santa Maria
(ship)
Santo Antonio
(carrack)
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
Schoonzicht
(ship)
Scientific Encyclopedia
(Van Nostrand)
scientists
scurvy
seaport
search-and-destroy mode
sharks
sheltered anchorage
ships.
See also
pepper ships;
specific ships
Aceh bound
China's wooden
East Indies destination of
English
European
islands in path of
pirates attacking U.S.
plundering of
Portuguese
Portuguese crews on
slavery
U.S.
Shubrick, Irving
Silsbee, Nathaniel
Silsbee, Pickman & Stone
silver
Singapore
slavery.
See also
forced cultivation
in Benkoolen
labor and
Raffl es, Stamford, abolishing
ships used in
Smith, Adam
Smith, Samuel
smuggling
Son of Heaven
Sooloo
(ship)
Soo-soo
beauty of
port of
Sowdon, James
Spain
Speelman, Cornelus
spices.
See also
cardamom; cloves; nutmeg; turmeric
in Ayurvedic medicine
Benkoolen's cost of planting
Columbus noting abundance of
defining
Dutch strategy for monopoly of
Jesuits' income from
Malacca transport point for
meals using
mythical East and
trees with
Spice Islands
spice trade
of English East India Company
Europe's Middle Ages
garblers controlling
Portuguese control of
of VOC
Srinivasan, Krishnapura
Stavorinus, Johan Splinter
Ascension description of
Batavia observations of
Bengal monkeys and
fish encountered by
stock ownership
Story, William
Strait of Malacca
sugar plantations
sultanate of Aceh
Suma Oriental
(Pires)
Sumatra
beauty of
Carnes' pepper trade with
Davis writing about
England leaving
English East India's pepper colony on
gold from
pepper coast of
pepper production decline of
as largest pepper supplier
pepper traders of
as pepper's largest producer
Raffles, Stamford, wishing to save
sultanate of Aceh ruling of
tumultuous surf of
U.S. deaths during voyages to
U.S. pepper loads from
U.S. pepper trade ending with
West
Sung Dynasty
superstitious beliefs
supremacy quest
Surat, India
surf, tumultuous
Susan
(ship)
Sushruta the Second
Syah, Ala'ud-din Ri'ayat
Table Bay
Tang Dynasty
Tastes of Paradise
(Schivelbusch)
taxes
Taylor, Fitch W.
tea trade
Teungku Cik di Tiro
textiles
Thani, Iskandar
tonics
tortoises
on Galapagos Island
Indian Ocean's giant
Leguat's account of
survival of
taste of
Towerson, Gabriel
trade
within Asia
coins for pepper in
Dutch dominating
exclusive agreements in
gap
maritime
network
opium
tea
vision
The Travels
(Marco Polo)
Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Treasure Fleet
trade gap left by withdrawal of
Zheng He commander of
Treaty of Tordesillas
trikatu
tumor cells
tumor necrosis factor
turmeric
“Two Sides of a Tortoise” (Melville)
Unicorne
(ship)
United States (U.S.)
armed intervention sanctioned by
captain disputes of
Dattoo arrangements made with
last pepper ships of
Malaysians not seizing more ships of
pepper ships not completing voyages of
pepper trade and
pepper trade's false weights used by
pirates attacking ships of
pirates debate of
Qualah Battoo indiscriminate killing of
Qualah Battoo set ablaze by
Sumatra pepper loads of
Sumatra pepper trade ending with
Sumatra voyages deaths and
uric acid
Ursula de Abreu e Lencastre, Dona Maria
Uzzo, Robert
Valleau, Antoine
Van Nostrand
van Speult, Herman
vanilla
Venice
Verhoeven, Pieter
Vietnam
vine, woody climbing
visceral leishmaniasis
VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie)
Bantam largest supplier to
capitalization of
Chinese revolt against
clove and nutmeg agreement of
downfall of
English East India imports compared to
fraud epidemic in
Indian textiles and
intra-Asia trade and
malaria killing employees of
opium exports of
price control pressure from
spice trade of
as successful commercial enterprise
trade network profits of
Voltaire
Wan Li
warehouses
(horrea piperataria)
Warriner, Francis
water torture
wealth
elephants measurement of
fresh meat and
in Middle Ages
West Sumatra
whale hunt
Wheatley, Roger
white pepper
Wichelman, Magnus
wild pepper
wildlife.
See also
birds; elephants; fish; monkeys; reptiles; sharks; tortoises
hungry men noticing
Leguat's description of
pepper trade and vulnerabilities of
Wilkins, Charles F.
William, Master
William and Henry
(ship)
William III
women
merchants entertained by
pinang
chewing of
Portuguese and European
wood
Woodbury, Levi
xanthine oxidase
Xavier, Francis
Yale, Elihu
Yale University
York Fort
Yuan Dynasty
Zaiton
Zheng He
Zhu Di, emperor
Zhu Gaozhi
A pepper plant from the monumental work of a nineteenth-century Austrian physician named Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz, who published an eleven-volume encyclopedia describing medicinal and culinary plants. Ignaz Albrecht, a well-known engraver, worked on the more than one thousand hand-colored copperplate engravings.
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