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34 EARLY ENGLISH ADVENTURERS IN TIIE EAST
mercantile circles. Out of this travail was born with the
new century the historic East India Company, an institution
which, beyond any other purely private organization, in
the centuries following moulded the destinies of the British
Empire.
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