Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748. Containing an account of the islands of St. Helena and Java. Of the city of Batavia. Of the government and political conduct of the Dutch. Of the empire of China, with a particular description of Canton ...

Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748. Containing an account of the islands of St. Helena and Java. Of the city of Batavia. Of the government and political conduct of the Dutch. Of the empire of China, with a particular description of Canton ...

DS506 .N6

1762

Within an entertaining narrative of love, hate, competition, and compassion, Noble's curiosity about human beings serves as an early ethnographic study of people of the islands of St. Helena and Java and the city of Batavia (now Jakarta). It, however, also provides a glimpse of the intense competition between two major 18th century colonial enterprises: the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company.

341 pages

Asia - Southeast Asia Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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