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Title: The sea trader, his friends and enemies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hannay, David, 1853-1934
Subjects: Commerce -- History Navigation -- History Merchant marine -- History
Publisher: London, New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n suchenormous numbers. Such men as Pindar and Hancock(and their name was legion) would have rebelled againstbeing compelled to drink a glassful of lemon-juice everymorning on an empty stomach. In the unhealthy portsof the Indian Ocean Englishmen, whether sailors or merchants, rushed to indulge in liquor in a fashion whichseemed insane to the Dutch, who yet were not sober men.Therefore they suffered far more from dysentery. Alongwith the foresight, the honest dealing, the heroism of thebetter sort, there is to be found the blind longing of themere human brute for an intense sensation of animal joy.For that they risked their lives, and they were preparedto obtain it by swilling raw arrack, and were at all timescontemptuous of prudence. Therefore, they served as mereraw material, to be used up in making a breach, or as manurefor the field, which wiser men have tilled to their profit;but therefore, also, they were intrepid in the face of peril,and as contemptuous of danger as of caution.
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yu>^^^iim/a/i& ENGLISH SAILORS. CHAPTER VII IN THE EASTERN SEAS The world beyond the Cape of Good Hope was everywherefull of violence. It always had been before the Portuguesecame as the forerunners of direct European commerce.They made no change, neither did their successors and rivalsfrom England, Holland, and France. When the Europeanintruders came to a balance and an understanding, the oldnative disorder went on. It arose as from the soil, the sea,and the very bones of the peoples. If the repressing handof civilization were lifted even for a single year, perhapsonly for one month, it would come up again as inevitably asexhalations rise out of stagnant water. From antiquity the sea trader had been subject topillage at the hands of all who dwelt on the shores of thegreat trade routes. From the Gulf of Persia and the RedSea, by the seashore of Mekran, and the Bay of Cambaya,along the coast of Malabar, round the Bay of Bengal,through the Straits of Malacca, across the Indian Ar

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