Darien: Or, the Merchant Prince. a Historical Romance 2
Darien: Or, the Merchant Prince. a Historical Romance 2
Eliot Warburton
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Like the Flying-fish, whose name she bore, everything that moved upon the waters was her enemy. But her speed had hitherto defied all pursiiit, and she now transported Alvarez and his friend to their destination. Andreas, of course, accompanied them. He had, in former times, guided Sir Henry Morgan to the sack of Panama ; and he now careftdly kept out of his sight, fearing that this reformed Governor would hang him for his former services. The ambition of Alvarez was to put into execution the p...lans he had long dreamed of, and which Paterson had matured, con- cerning a vast system of commerce; — a. system which was to embrace all countries and their produce ; to acquire a knowledge (without reference to distance) of where any article was to be most cheaply pro- cured^ and in what part of the world it could find the highest price. These point3 90 DARIEN. ascertained^ the intermediate questions oi the cost and risk of transport was of minor interest. The system was to have its centre at Carthagena^ and gradually to branch out into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans^ and along the sea^board of both continentd> until it comprised the world.
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