The Harleian Miscellany
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ISBN13: 9781458879813
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SHORT ACCOUNT THE SIEGE OF BANTAM; AND ITS SURRENDER TO THE REBELS, Who were assisted by the Dutch, and their Fleet, IN THE EAST INDIES; In a letter from an English Factor to a Merchant of London, London, printed for John Smith, 1683. Folio, containing two pages. VjREAT was our expectation upon the success of onr late am. bassador Kaia Nebbe's negotiation into England; of settling a commerce -with that kingdom; which, as it is of all nations in most esteem with, so is it most earnestly desired by the Bantamites, who have a natural kindness for the English in these parts. Whilst we were big with these joys, a sudden and unexpected storm happened, which blasted all our hopes in an instant, and unmercifully exposed us, not only to the fury of a domestick enemy, b'ut the spoil and rapine of a foreign foe. Sir, it would be but a needless trouble to tell you the true cor. respondence, and real friendship, that has been preserved between the English and the Bantamites: these allowing them a factory, and a place of residence for their consult within the walls of the town of Bantam, which is the capital city of Java, whereas all other foreign, ers, as the Bengallians, Cusarats, Malayans, Abyssins, Chinese, Portuguese, and Hollanders, are placed without the town; nay the very Indians themselves, who come from the borders of the country, have their places allotted them without the city, where they hare their markets for their particular commodities, the grand bazor, or exchange, being in the east part of the town, wholly em. ployed in the English factory, and for stowing up the commodities they trade in. Since the last massacre of the Dutch in this nation, they have not dealt so'freely amongst us, but keep within their own plantation at Batavia, which is some twelve leagu...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458879813 |
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| ISBN-10 | 145887981X |
| Weight | 1.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.28 In |
| List Price | $35.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 576 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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