📖 Excerpt from Augustin Beaulieu: Navigateur Rouennais (1589-1637)En 1616, sa Compagnie, composée de Parisiens et de Rouennais, l'envoie à Java comme lieutenant du sieur de Nets, capitaine de la marine royale.Depuis 1595, les Hollandais avaient des comptoirs à Java. Ils voulaient rester maîtres du commerce de cette île et, pour atteindre ce but, tous les moyens leur étaient bons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.