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Pages : 530
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The Register of Letters, Etc., of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies, 1600-1619. Edited by Sir G. Birdwood ... Assisted by W. Foster
Author: The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing His Experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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John Jourdain (died 1619) was a British captain in the service of the East India Company. He joined the company as a factor in 1607 and first sailed on its "Fourth Voyage" to India, making stops along the way at the Cape of Good Hope, Socotra and other Indian Ocean islands, and Aden and Mocha in Yemen, before arriving at Surat. The Fourth Voyage consisted of two ships, the Union and the Ascension. A pinnace was built and added to the two ships during a stop at Table Bay. The voyage encountered many problems, and the ships never made it back to England. Bad weather in the Indian Ocean separated the vessels, and hostilities with the Portuguese and with the natives often broke out, making the voyage the worst in the company's early history. After failing to secure a trading post in India and dismayed with the time and gifts they wasted on Mughal officials, the British headed back to the Red Sea, where they resorted to seizing and ransoming Indian ships near Mocha. Jourdain was later sent on a mission to Sumatra, this time to challenge the Dutch monopoly on trade in the Spice Islands. The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing his Experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago is the author's narrative of the nine years he was away while serving in the East India Company. The book begins with a lengthy introduction summarizing and elucidating the events that Jourdain chronicled in his journal. It begins on March 25, 1608, when he left the Downs, on the southeast coast of England, and ends on June 19, 1617, when his journal ceased with a final entry written near Dungeness, on the way to the Downs. On a later journey, Jourdain was shot by a Dutch sniper in Patani, India and died from his wounds in July 1619. The journal entries vary in length and substance, from brief descriptions of the weather conditions at sea to much longer accounts of events and places. Lists of authorities, bibliographies, and appendices of people and places are given at the end of the book.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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The Register of Letters, &c., of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies, 1600-1619
Author: East India CompanyThe register of letters, &c. of the governour and company of merchants of London trading into the East Indies, 1600-1619, ed. by sir G. Birdwood assisted by W. Foster
Author: East India CompanyWorks Issued by the Hakluyt Society
Author: The Register of Letters Etc. of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies, 1600-1619
Author: Sir George BirdwoodOutlines of Indian Constitutional History [British Period]
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Author: William Arthur Jobson ArchboldPublisher: London : P.S. King & Son Limited
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Register of Letters &C. of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies, 1600-1619 (Classic Reprint)
Author: George BirdwoodPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266451488
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Excerpt from The Register of Letters &C. Of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies, 1600-1619 The volume has been generally known as the Miscellaneous Court Book, and that is the description inscribed on its label. There seems, however, to be little doubt that the proper title is the one now adopted, viz: The Register of Letters, &c. Of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies. This is the title by which it is designated in the earlier Court Minutes although later on it seems to have lost its original title and is referred to as the booke wher ye Commissions be.2 It is in fact the first Letter Book and Register of the London or Old East India Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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