Outing . arvardCollege. There the young man remaineduntil he had become a linguist and had madea thorough study of the English and French ^^x«^nj!T 1 . r^Xt *rirjm^ W0 4 I SI Ht/i « * a JI\X i V SCl^ \AirBB ^Hj Hi <s jfer~^i!WtiiJn HKL. r~ mA ?l^uc. f- 4 j ti si1 ,£1 ^Ktfew /:^ 1 The old-time sailors used to have their vesselspainted on pitchers and punch bowls. methods of tradewith the far laid thisthorough founda-tion for his boldventure, Mr. Derbysent the Grand Turkto India and Chinain 1785, the firstvoyage of the kindever attempted fromNew England. Ayear and a half laterthe
Outing . arvardCollege. There the young man remaineduntil he had become a linguist and had madea thorough study of the English and French ^^x«^nj!T 1 . r^Xt *rirjm^ W0 4 I SI Ht/i « * a JI\X i V SCl^ \AirBB ^Hj Hi <s jfer~^i!WtiiJn HKL. r~ mA ?l^uc. f- 4 j ti si1 ,£1 ^Ktfew /:^ 1 The old-time sailors used to have their vesselspainted on pitchers and punch bowls. methods of tradewith the far laid thisthorough founda-tion for his boldventure, Mr. Derbysent the Grand Turkto India and Chinain 1785, the firstvoyage of the kindever attempted fromNew England. Ayear and a half laterthe Grand Turk en-tered Salem harbordeep-laden with tea,silks and began the Sa-lem trade with thefar East which ap-peared to be sopromising that at once sentout the bark, LightHorse, and the brigantine, Three Sisters. Elias Hasket, jr., was now sent to India,where he lived three years in the interestsof his house, and firmly established animmensely profitable trade which for half a. Leaving port in 1800 568 The Outing Magazine century was to make the name of Salem farmore widely known in Bombay and Cantonthan those of New York or Boston. A littlelater the Derby ship Astrea was showingthe American flag to the natives of fortunes were won in those bravedays may be learned from the record ofyoung Derbys activities while in the farEast. In 1788, the proceeds of one cargoenabled him to buy a ship and a brigantinein the Isle of France (Mauritius) in theIndian Ocean. These two vessels he sentto Bombay to load with cotton. Two a cargo of coffee. The natives had neverheard of America, and the strange vesselwas a nine days wonder. It is the common belief that the mer-chant vessels of a century ago were slowand clumsy craft, yet the Astrea in .aBaltic voyage, made the run from Salemto the coast of Ireland in eleven days, apassage equal to those of the fastestpackets of the fifties, and as fast as manylarge passenger steamers make the dis-tance to-day. In 178
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