The sea trader, his friends and enemies (1912) (14754549886)

Identifier: seatraderhisfrie00hann (find matches)
Title: The sea trader, his friends and enemies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hannay, David, 1853-1934
Subjects: Commerce -- History Navigation -- History Merchant marine -- History
Publisher: London, New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rser, William Griff en, andMaster Foster died, both of the flux. The seventeenthday died of the flux William Lewed, John Jenkens, andSamuel Porter. This day died Henry Stiles our mastercarpenter, and James Vamam and John Iberson, all of theflux. At night one of our men leaped overboard, havingthe calenture, and three more died of the flux—their nameswere W^illiam BeUidine, William Pooter, Gideon Marten,and James Vennes. It was the well-grounded belief ofDr. Johnson that of those who die in war a very smallpart ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languishedin tents and ships amid damps and putrefactions ; pale,torpid, spiritless, helpless, groping and groaning, unpitiedamong men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopelessmisery, and were at last whelmed in pits^ or heaved into theocean, without notice and without remembrance. By in-commodious encampments and unwholesome stations, wherecourage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets were 6 3 c 3 a. 3 o > I r.o ?3
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IN THE EASTERN SEAS 145 silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away.*Early trade was a kind of war, and subject to its laws. Ofthe thousands and tens of thousands who died to preparethe expansion of modem commerce, only a comparativelysmall part felt the stroke of an enemy or perished inshipwreck. When Middleton did reach Amboina and begin to opena trade with the Portuguese garrison, the Dutch turned up.Caspar de Melo, the Portuguese Captain, had been on thewhole friendly, and was loud in professions of his determina-tion to defy the Dutch ; but when they came he made atame surrender, for which he afterwards lost his head.When the natives saw that the Dutch were masters, theydeclined to trade with us. It was the same story at Tidoreand Ternate. In vain did the Red Dragon rescue the Kingof Ternate and certain Dutch friends of his when they werefiercely pursued by the men of Tidore, who were in alliancewith the Portuguese. The King of Ternate was tremblingwhen he scrambled ou