The Old East Indiamen

FOOTNOTES:

A Drake of course had previously encircled the globe in a voyage of twenty-six months, having set forth from Plymouth in 1577, though his was even more of a buccaneering expedition than that of Candish.

B The longboat carried by these East Indiamen measured from twenty-seven to twenty-nine feet in length.

C The East Indiamen of about the middle of the eighteenth century rode to fifteen-inch cables.

D The Spaniard is a treacherous patch off the north-east corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

E For some details in this connection I am indebted to Lindsay’s “History of Merchant Shipping,” as well as to an article in The Mariner’s Mirror, vol. i., No. 1.

F Mentioned in Captain E. du Boulay’s “Bembridge, Past and Present.”

G I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness in this chapter to Captain Rathbone Low’s “History of the Indian Navy.”

H That is to say a ship belonging to the Ostend East India Company.

Transcriber’s Notes:

The original spelling, punctuation and hyphenation has been retained, except for apparent printer’s errors.

With reference to paragraph fifteen in Chapter XV, Captain Grant most likely served with William Henry, Duke of Clarence, the third son of George III., who succeeded his older brother George IV. as king, reigning as William IV. George III. never joined the Royal Navy and is of an earlier generation than Grant.

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