Pepper (40 page)

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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