History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 194
e East The tradeIndies during the previous twenty years, and of the Englishdifficulties they had then to encounter. Out of eighty-m Indla<six ships which they had in that time despatched,eleven were surprised and seized by the Dutch, ninewere lost, five were worn out by long service, goingfrom… … position whatever in India in opposition to the Dutch,whose settlements at that time prove that they 170 MERCHANT SHIPPING. enjoyed a virtual, and sometimes a real, monopoly ofthe trade in spices, cloves, nutmegs, mace, and cin-namon, the products exclusively of their Easternpossessions, including…
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