 | John Pinkerton - 1811 - 820 pàgines
...ufe of it : but if it were fafe without the walls, yet it is not an eafy work to divert the courfe of trade, and draw the refort of merchants from their...: an hundred men will not keep it, for if once the Portuguefes fee you take that courfe, they will ufe all their endeavours to fupplant you. A war and... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1811 - 824 pàgines
...an eafy work to divert the courfe of trade, and draw the refort of merchants from their accullomed mart, efpecially for our commodity, which is bought...called ftaple. Secondly, The charge is greater than the ti;ade can bear, for to maintain a garrifon will eat out the profit : an hundred men will not keep... | |
 | Robert Rickards - 1832 - 828 pàgines
...lands, fortifications, and equipments." — Vol. ip 62. 450 to their trade. " Secondly," he adds, " the " charge is greater than the trade can bear : " for to maintain a garrison will eat out your " profit. War and traffic are incompatible. " The Portuguese, notwithstanding... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pàgines
...one." Sir Thomas then gives evidence that a fort would not assist the trade. " Secondly," he says, "the charge is greater than the trade can bear, for to maintain a garrison will eat out the profit. An hundred men will not keep it, for if once the Portugueses see... | |
 | Mary Evelyn Monckton Jones - 1922 - 220 pàgines
...would not accept one. First, where the river is commodious, the country is barren and untraded. . . . Secondly the charge is greater than the trade can bear ; for to maintain a garrison will eat the profit. ... A war and traffic are incompatible. By my consent, you shall no way... | |
 | 1875 - 578 pàgines
...accept of one." His reasons for this opinion are, " firstly, that it be prejudicial to their trade ; and secondly, the charge is greater than the trade can bear, for to maintain a garrison will eat all your profit — war and traffic are incompatible. By my consent you shall never... | |
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If it had been fit for trade, the natives would have chofen it, for they feel the inconveniency of a barred haven ; and it is argument enough of fome fecret inconveniency, that they make not ufe of it : but if it were fafe without the walls, yet it is... 