Descrizione

About the Book:-The authors have made a bold attempt to unravel the truth behind the Voyages to the East Indies. Old books of voyages and travels do not necessarily importance of the voyage, or the celebrity of the traveller. A humble trader or seaman, going about his daily business, will often preserve a hundred details of the life abroad ship and in the ports he visited that would have been passed over silently by the envoy intent on great affairs, or the man of letters straining after the picturesque. They were both minor employees of the Dutch East India Company. The one a surgeon, the other a volunteer who went out as a ship’s steward, and filled various subordinate posts, ashore and afloat, in the East Indies. Both were shrewd observant men, keenly interested in everything new and strange, and their accounts of life on board a Dutch East Indiaman. The book is the product of study of this journey. The subject matter of the book is good and interesting.