| Show started by a pepper corner corners in various articles ot of ferchau dise disc and especially la in food from wheat and pork to prunes are characteristic of the business methods of the present day but they are not a mole modern rii invention the famous east india company according to a document rece recently published had its origin in a dutch corner in popper pepper certain merchants in amsterdam nho had begun to trade in the eastern seas about 1595 1395 had bad by the end of tile century so well established themselves that they raised the price of pepper in ill london from three shillings to eight shillings a pound the london iner merchants chants thereupon held a meeting and resolved to form an association to trade directly with india queen elizabeth at alie same time sent au an envoy to the great GreatA mogul logal to secure privileges for the company and in 1000 1600 the first british east india company was incorporated by royal charter cli arter under the title of the governor and company of merchants of london trading to the east ladies indies in due time this company established a greater monopoly than the dutch had ever dreamed of and the british empire in india may be said to have been started by the dutch pepper corner philadelphia times |
