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Excerpt from The Old East Indiamen The East India Company rose from being private venture of a few enterprisingimerchants to become a gigantic corporation of immense political power, with its own governors, its own cavalry, artillery and infantry, its own navy, and yet with its trade-monopoly and its unsurpassed regular ser vice of merchantmen. The latter were the largest, the best built, and the most powerfully armed vessels in the world, with the exception only of some war ships. They were, so to speak, the crack liners of the day, but they were a great deal more besides. Their Officers were the finest navigators afloat, their seamen were at times as able as any of the crews in the Royal Navy, and in time of war the Govern ment Showed how much it coveted them by impress ing them into its service, to the great chagrin and inconvenience Of the East India Company, as we Shall see later on in our story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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