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Excerpt from Captain Herbert, Vol. 1 of 3
There were sundry reasons, some of them a little odd, why Bristol was far less likely to suffer by consequent changes in the colonial trade than most other seaports. Her dealings were rather of a grand kind, or partook of the mysterious and picturesque. As long as Spanish wool and wine lasted, with fruit from up the Mediterranean, and spices from farther East, she was half secure; she did much in African timber, palm - oil, gold-dust, ivory; there was a sort of monopoly of the West. 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.
