Merchant Venturers of Old Salem a History of the Commercial Voyages of a New En
Merchant Venturers of Old Salem a History of the Commercial Voyages of a New En
Robert E Robert Ephraim Peabody
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Accordingly as soon as he had loaded the tea, Ingersoll set sail and on May 4 arrived at the island of St. Helena where he landed the rum. From there the Grand Turk proceeded to the West Indies to complete her cargo by loading sugar, and on July 26 she arrived at Salem. Although, like the voyage of the Light Horse to the Baltic, this first venture of Mr. Derby's to the southern hemisphere did not result in great profits, it gave him an idea of the state of the mar- kets in distant parts of the ...world. While at the 1 Journals of Major Samuel Shaw (edited by Josiah Quincy), p. 208. American Commerce in the Far East 59 Cape, Captain Ingersoll had learned of the possi- bilities of trade at the Isle of France, or Mauritius. This small island and its neighbor, the Isle of Bour- bon, lie in the Indian Ocean about five hundred miles east of Madagascar, directly in the sailing route around the Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies. In/j^i, at the advice of Colbert at the French Court, France took possession of the islands, and a settlement was made first on the Isle of Bourbon.
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