Jeopardy of Every Wind
Jeopardy of Every Wind In 1669, fleeing a London decimated by the plague and the Great Fire, a 9-year-old English child arrived alone at Fort St. The boy survived to become a maverick…
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Jeopardy of Every Wind
In 1669, fleeing a London decimated by the plague and the Great Fire, a 9-year-old English child arrived alone at Fort St. The boy survived to become a maverick merchant-mariner, an 'independent' trading on the fringes of the East India Company. George, the first English fortress in Mughal India.
Operating throughout the East Indies and speaking Malay, he would publish the first ever Malay-English dictionary, a seminal work used a century later by Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. Captain Thomas Bowrey gained renown in numerous fields. He was involved in the African slave trade to India; he collaborated with Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, in the founding of the South Sea Company; and even penned the first account in English of the recreational use of cannabis.
Bowrey's shipping interests were many but were plagued by pirates, privateers and mutiny and included