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The English were granted a house in Aceh, royal protection, full trading rights, and exemption from customs duties. All that remained was to load the fleet with Sumatra’s famous black pepper and head for home.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The Shipping News and Death of a Shipowner and engrossed in the textbooks Maritime Economics by Martin Stopford and Ship Finance: Credit Expansion & the Boom-Bust Cycle by Peter Stokes.
Matthew McCleery • The Shipping Man
in troubled waters it is good fishing’,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
letting on
Max Harms • Crystal Society (Crystal Trilogy Book 1)
Additionally there was a problem of communication. The natives ‘spoke through the throat’ and ‘clocked with their tongues in such sort that in…seven weeks…the sharpest wit amongst us could not learn one word of their language’.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
For twelve months it looked as if the ambitious idea of founding an English company to trade with the East would remain just that – a midsummer dream. It was only when the Spanish peace talks foundered in the summer of 1600 that the Privy Council had a change of heart and felt confident enough to stress the universal freedom of the seas and the rig
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Nathaniel Courthope,