قصة الكتاب :
Peter Floris was a Dutchman who led the English East India Company’s Seventh Voyage,\r\n1611–15. His vessel, the Globe, was the first English ship to trade in the Bay of Bengal and\r\nSiam. Floris was the name he adopted in the English service, entry to which broke the oath\r\nwhich he had previously taken when employed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). A\r\nmotive for his change of allegiance may have been the opportunity for private trade. Both\r\ncompanies prohibited it, but in practice the English approach was relaxed, and part of the\r\nimportance of Floris’s journal is the light it throws on private Company trade in the east.\r\n