Excerpt from A Defence of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East-Indies, Vol. 4: And Their Servants, (Particularly Those at Bengal) Against the Complaints of the Dutch East-India Company One cannot here but admire it as a wonderful Incident, that the Dutch, arriving in obedience to their Order: at Negapatam, lhould inllzantly find Reafon to abandon their original Objeel, and proceed to that very Place to which the Other Part of the Armament, contrary to Orders, and without knowing any thing of the fecondary O'wjeet to which the Governor of Negapatam was inflrufled to attend, had been before driven by Storm. 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.