Editing Bombay by Night (section)

== Historical Notes ==


=== Factory ===

The word factory, which is Feitoria in Portuguese, is used in a different context in this time. It is used to describe what we might know as a specific city district used by Europeans as a base of their trading. It was almost always walled to be separated from the local inhabitants and was used as a marketplace, warehouse, customs office and a launching off point for further expeditions. It was essentially considered a different country, so any attack on a Portuguese Feitoria was like attacking Portugal itself, and it is not to different from a modern dockyards being treaded like a modern embassy while still functioning as a dockyards. Portugal is famous for making vast numbers of these areas all across the world and meant that all of their trade went through merchants that they could control and tax. The British and Dutch East India companies used similar areas, but usually the British and Dutch Factories used them as precursor's for colonial expansion. 


=== Map of the Isles ===

Here is the link to the map.[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Seven_Islands_of_Bombay_en.svg]