ABSTRACT

Boxer provide excellent introductions: 'The Carreira da India, 1650-1750', The Mariner's Mirror, 46 (Feb. 1960), 35-54; ed. and trans., The Tragic History of the Sea, 1189-1622 (Cambridge, 1959), 1-30; The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 14D-182} (London, 1969), 205-19; James Duffy, Shipvreck and Empire (Cambridge, 1955). Cf. Michael Lewis, A Social History of the Navy, 1795-1811 (London, I960), espcciaUy 85-340; Christopher Lloyd, The British Seaman, 1200-1860 (London, 1968); Boxer, "The Dutch EastIndiamen: their sailors, their navigators, ana life on board, 1602-1795*, The Mariner's Mirror, 49 (May, 1963), 81-104; Jean Mcrrien, La vie quotidienne des marins au temps du roi soleil (Paris, 1964).