Chapter 5

1. A poem discussed in: George Hart, 1999, The Poems of Ancient Tamils, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 125–9.

2. See note 1.

3. E. A. Alpers, Ivory and Slaves in East Coastal Africa (London, 1975); H. Gerbeau, ‘The Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean’ in The African Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century (UNESCO, 1979); A. Reid (ed.) Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia (St Lucia, 1983); J. Hogendoren and M. Johnson, The Shellmoney of the Slave Trade (Canberra, 1986); G. Clarence-Smith (ed.), The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1989).

4. J. G. Taylor, The Social World of Batavia. European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia (Wisconsin, 1983); E. E. Eldridge and F. Morton (eds), Slavery in South Africa. Captive Labour on the Dutch Frontier (Pietermaritzberg, 1994).

5. Website: http://www.seagaia.co.jp Miyazaki Ocean Dome, Sheraton Seagaia Resort.