The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
on 3 May came ‘another very sore storme’ which so buffeted the Red Dragon that it caused its rudder to shear off. The rudder sank without trace and there was no replacement.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
To the directors of the London Company they were ‘Peter Floris’ and ‘Lucas Antheuniss’ and their offer was in the nature of a rather intriguing proposal.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
meet him off Gravesend with a barge
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Somewhat clumsily he had set a precedent, which would soon become an imperative, of exploiting the existing carrying trade of Asia.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
men again began dying. From the Red Dragon were lost the master’s mate, the preacher, the surgeon and ‘tenne other common men’.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
the latest advances in marine technology
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Nicobar Islands off Sumatra.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
having nothing to eate but durtie rice and stinking raine water’. ‘But God will provide for his servants’, declared Kellum Throgmorton, another prisoner, ‘though He give these Horse-turds leave to domineere a while.’
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
It stood to reason that any man willing to gamble his life on a voyage to the Indies would think nothing of gambling his wages on a few diamonds or a sack of cloves.