Merchant Venturers of Old Salem: A History of the Commercial Voyages of a New England Family to the Indies and Elsewhere in the XVIII CenturyHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 168 頁 |
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American merchants American ships American vessels anchor arrived Astrea Batavia Benjamin Bohea Bohea tea Bombay Boston bound Bowditch brig Brigt British Canton Capt Captain Derby Captain Driver Captain West captured cargo of provisions carried Casks cent China coast coffee colonial cotton crew Derby ship Derby vessel Derby's despatched disposed duties East Indies Elias Hasket Derby England English fleet foreign freight French West frigate guns Hope India island Isle of France Jacobin club Jamaica July June letter of marque Light Horse loaded London Madeira Massachusetts mate molasses Mount Vernon Naples Nathaniel Bowditch Nathaniel Silsbee nearly November obtain owner port privateer profit purchase return cargo returned to Salem Revolution Richard Derby river sailed schooner sell sent ship Grand Turk Sloop sold soon Spanish dollars sugar supercargo Three Sisters tons trade voyage West Indies Whampoa wind wine
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第 3 頁 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
第 47 頁 - The Cabots of Beverly, who, you know, had but five years ago a very moderate share of property, are now said to be by far the most wealthy in New England...
第 137 頁 - ... calculated to keep up appearances with the fleet, and to escape our shot. We received seven or eight broadsides from him, and I was mortified at not having it in my power to return him an equal number, without exposing myself to the rest of the fleet ; for I am persuaded I should have had the pleasure of sending him home, had he been separate from them. "At midnight we had distanced them, the chasing rocket signals being almost out of sight, and soon left them.
第 57 頁 - His object was to sell rum, cheese, salt provisions, chocolate, loaf-sugar, butter, &c., the proceeds of which, in money, with a quantity of ginseng, and some cash brought with him, he intended to invest in Bohea tea ; but as the ships bound to Europe are not allowed to break bulk on the way, he was disappointed in his expectations of procuring that article, and sold his ginseng for two-thirds of a Spanish dollar a pound, which is twenty per cent. better than the silver money of the Cape. He intended...
第 57 頁 - Spanish dollar a pound, which is twenty per cent. better than the silver money of the Cape. He intended remaining a short time to purchase fine teas in the private trade allowed the officers on board India ships, and then to sail to the coast of Guinea, to dispose of his rum, etc., for ivory and gold dust; thence without taking a single slave to proceed to the West Indies and purchase sugar and cotton, with which he would return to Salem.
第 135 頁 - Tercira — a lugger to the southward. Being uncertain of his force, we stood by him to leeward on our course, and soon left him. July 28th, in the afternoon, we found ourselves approaching a fleet of upwards of fifty sail, steering nearly NE...
第 165 頁 - Cape of Good Hope, which has since become so extensive and lucrative; he made various improvements in navigation, and the many excellent vessels built according to his own plans and under his immediate direction, are proofs of his skill in naval architecture. " If that man is deserving of the gratitude of his country ' who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before,
第 153 頁 - ... paying them. Without possessing a scientific knowledge of the construction and sparring of ships, Mr. Derby seemed to have an intuitive faculty in judging of models and proportions ; and his experiments, in several instances, for the attainment of swiftness of sailing, were crowned with a success unsurpassed in our own, or any other country.
第 121 頁 - THE darkened sky— -how thick it lowers ! Troubled with storms, and big with showers ; No cheerful gleam of light appears, But nature pours forth all her tears. 2 Yet let the sons of grace revive; God bids the soul that seeks him, live ; And from the gloomiest shade of night, Calls forth a morning of delight. 3 The seeds of...
第 57 頁 - He intended remaining a short time to purchase fine teas in the private trade allowed the officers on board India ships, and then to sail to the coast of Guinea, to dispose of his rum, etc., for ivory and gold dust; thence without taking a single slave to proceed to the West Indies and purchase sugar and cotton, with which he would return to Salem. Notwithstanding the disappointment in the principal object of the voyage and the consequent determination to go to the coast of Guinea, his resolution...