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Excerpt from The Adventures of John Smith in Malaya: 1600-1605 It was his intention to get as quickly as possible to the Malay Peninsula, stopping only at certain ports for the purpose of taking in water and fresh provisions. If fortune favoured him, he intended loitering about in the Straits of Malacca and perhaps doing a little damage to the Portugals' trade there, either as a merchant, by legitimate sharp trading, or, seeing that he was armed, perhaps there might be some chance of a fight at sea with some of their ships, or better still, a richly laden galleon bringing home cloves from Amboyna, or gold from Ophir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.