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Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie
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to take out one of our eyes they will lose both theire own.’
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,
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the Edward Bonaventure.
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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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The Company’s flagship had in fact become a grounded and gutted hulk; her commander was dead, her crew decimated, and her hull was
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the interloper’s apologia,
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making life impossible for the English in the Spice Islands. Then in 1618 came news of the capture of the Zwaarte Leeuw at Bantam. The Companies were now at war and the English in Siam isolated. It was while trying to redress this situation that Jourdain, in 1619, was surprised off Patani and killed by that marksman’s bullet.
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Minangkabau forests.