The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
a less equivocal drain on the nation’s resources and one which even lemon juice had failed to staunch.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Alderman Sir Thomas Smythe,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Ala-uddin Shah was reportedly anxious to meet them and in due course sent ‘sixe greate ellifants with many trumpets, drums and streamers’ to convey the English to his court.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
the guests being seated on submerged stools with water up to their armpits while servants paddled between them with an assortment of spicy delicacies and quantities of that fiery arrack. In 1613 one such party attended by British visitors lasted four hours. Next day two of the partygoers died; their condition was diagnosed as ‘a surfeit taken by im
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John Middleton, Lancaster’s second in command,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
She reached London to a joyous welcome in June 1603 after a voyage remarkable only for the fact that she called at St Helena, thus inaugurating the Company’s long association with that island,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
arriving, once again crewed by ‘diseased cripples’, on 22 December 1604.
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
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.