| 11. | In 1553, a fleet of the Ottoman Empire made a raid on the Pearl Fishery Coast around Tuticorin.
|
| 12. | Megasthenes reported about the pearl fisheries of the Pandyas, indicating that the Pandyas derived great wealth from the pearl trade.
|
| 13. | Agents of the British were put in charge of lucrative pearl fisheries, cotton plantations, salt, and tobacco monopolies.
|
| 14. | The Portuguese derived considerable profit from the pearl trade, and strictly controlled the Pearl Fishery Coast through the Padroado system.
|
| 15. | This was largely due to the wealth of the country, famous in the earliest times as now for its pearl fisheries.
|
| 16. | He served as special commissioner at the pearl fishery in 1722 and as Dutch Ambassador to the Court of Kandy in 1736.
|
| 17. | Once the paravars of Pearl Fishery Coast had a sharp dispute with the Muslims of this area regarding the right of Pearl Fishing.
|
| 18. | From 1857 onwards, the so-called Double Jurisdiction caused a great problem among the Parava-Christians of Pearl Fishery Coast.
|
| 19. | It has been famed since antiquity for its pearl fisheries, which were considered the best in the world into the 19th century.
|
| 20. | In 1825 he took part as a zoologist in an expedition of the Pacific Pearl Fishery Company to New South Wales and the Tuamotus.
|
