"تقرير جديد عن جزر الهند الشرقية: يتناول ملاحظات وتعليقات النقيب أليكساندر هاميلتون الذي كان يسكن في تلك الأجزاء من ١٦٨٨ إلى ١٧٢٣، حيث كان يتاجر ويسافر بحرًا وبرًا إلى معظم البلاد والجزر المعنية بالتجارة والملاحة، بين رأس الرجاء الصالح وجزيرة اليابان. الطبعة الثانية. المجلد II." [‎١‎٥] (٣٦٢/٣٠)

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val he complimented Mr. Sheldon with the
Offer of his Pepper and W ine, but he decli
ned meddling with that Bargain, farther than
with as much of the Pepper, at the current
Price, as would balance his Account of Prin
cipal and reffondentia. Accordingly Terr in
delivered fo much Pepper, and, on the De
livery, required his Bond up, but the Go
vernor told him, that he being a Fellow
troubled with the Spirit of interlopping in
buying Goods, and taking Freights where
he could bell get them, he would keep that
Bond as a Curb on him, that he fhould not
fpoil his Markets for the future. Poor Ter*
rin ufed all his Rhetorick to get his Bond
up, but to no Purpofe; and the Governor
moreover gave his Wine a bad Name, fo
that he could not difpofe of that either, and
all this Opprellion was in order to flraitea
him, that he might be obliged to fell his
new purchafed Ship, at a low Price, to him
and his AfTociates, which, at laft, he was ob
liged to do, holding a Quarter Part in his
own Hands, to fecure the Command of her
to himfelf, which, after all, he could hardly
do. Terrin made his Complaint to me, but
I was in no Condition to affill: him, becaufe
I, having three or four large Ships at Bengal^
was reckoned a Criminal guilty of that un
pardonable Sin of Interlopping ; however, I
advifed Terr'tn to comply with his inexor
able Mailer, on any Terms of Agreement
whatfoever, which he endeavoured to do,
that he might, at leaft, keep the Command
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