A depiction of the British factory in Surat, after the English had supplanted the Dutch (compare the Dutch "logie" above); a French engraving, c.1725
Saturday, December 4, 2010
"Logie van Suratte," the headquarters building of the Dutch East India Company, from 'Pieter van den Broecke's Voyages to West Africa and Asia 1605-1630' by Isaac Commelin, Amsterdam, 1646;-LATER-- AFTER CAPTURE BY BRITISH
A depiction of the British factory in Surat, after the English had supplanted the Dutch (compare the Dutch "logie" above); a French engraving, c.1725
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