The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Mrs Keeling smuggled herself aboard the Red Dragon.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
soldiers and prostitutes
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
They were used indiscriminately to describe anywhere east of the Cape and west of the Azores.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Thrills and spills were commonplace, disasters fairly regular.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
William Hawkins,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
William Keeling,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The water, though only waist deep, was running with such a ferocious undertow that sixteen of the survivors were immediately sucked out of their depths and drowned.