ISBN: 1150948167

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781150948169], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...for the money they had already advanced, had not patience to stay till the course of trade gradually indemnified them, but, proceeding from extortion to extortion, they at last became downright robbers, seizing the cargo of the ships wherever they could find them, and exercising the most shocking cruelties on the persons they belonged to, flaying the factors alive, and impaling those that remained in their hands, to obtain, by terror, remittances from India. The trade was thus abandoned, and the revenue ceased. There were no bidders at Constantinople for the farm; nobody had trade in their heads, when their lives were every hour in danger. Dahalac became therefbj dependent on the Basha of Jidda, and he appointed an Aga, who paid him a moderate sum, and appropriated to himself the provisions and salary allowed for the pearl fishery, or the greatest part of them. The Aga at Suakem endeavoured, in vain, to make the Arabs and people near him work without salary; they abandoned an employment which produced nothing but punishment; and, in time, they grew ignorant of the fishery, in which they had once been so well skilled, and had been educated. This great nursery of seamen, therefore, being lost, and the gallies, being no longer properly manned, were either allowed to rot, or turned into merchant ships, for carrying the coffee between Yemen and Suez; these vessels were unarmed, and indeed incapable of armament, and un A Subaltern Governor. serviceable by their construction; besides, they were ill manned, and so carelessly and ignorantly navigated, that there was not a year, that one or more did not founder, not from stress of weather, (for they were sailing in a pond) or from any thing but ignorance, and inattention. Trade resumed its ancient course towards Jidd..., 300961, Travelers & Explorers, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 4997, Egypt, 4995, Middle East, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10399, Classics, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9781150948169

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Unknown Author, James Bruce, Created by General Books, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, , Travels-to-Discover-the-Source-of-the-Nile-Volume-1-In-the-Years-1768-1769-1770-1771-1772-1773~~Unknown-Author, 999999999, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile Volume 1; In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Unknown Author, James Bruce, Created by General Books, 1150948167, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1150948167

[EAN: 9781150948169], Neubuch, Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) fro… Plus…

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