Natives of Arrakan sell slaves to the Dutch East India Company at Pipely/Baliapal (in Orissa, India), Jan. 1663From ‘Wouter Schouten’s travels into the East Indies’, 2nd ed
Netherlands (1708)
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This is especially interesting because the folks from “Arrakan” are actually from what we’d now call Rakhine state in Burma.
We don’t feature enough Burmese stuff on this blog!
