NEGRAIS, an island, harbour, and cape of the Eastern Peninsula, is situated at the S.W. extremity of the kingdom of Pegu, in N. Lat. 16. 1., E. Long. 94. 12. The island is small, and is now deserted and overgrown with jungle; but the harbour is one of the safest in the Bay of Bengal. In 1687 a settlement was founded here by the British government of Madras, but it was soon after abandoned. In 1751 it was again for a short time occupied by the British; and in 1757 was ceded to them by the Burman emperor; but two years afterwards, the Burmese attacked it, and put to death all the inhabitants who did not succeed in effecting their escape.