Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544614052)

Scarcely had his appointment been confirmed before the melancholy news arrived, that the ship Friendship, of Salem, Mass., had been plundered, and a great portion of her crew murdered, by the natives of Qualah Battu. As an important branch of our commerce to the pepper ports on the western coast of Sumatra was endangered, by the successful and hostile act of these barbarians, it was deemed necessary that the piratical outrage should be promptly noticed by a national demand for the surrender and punishment of the aggressors. About this period, the U. S. ship-of-war Potomac was nearly ready to proceed to her station on the western coast of South America, by way of Cape Horn, but her destination was immediately changed for the western coast of Sumatra, accompanied by instructions to carry into effect the measures of government against the inhabitants of Qualah Battu.

Author: Edmund Roberts
ISBN-10: 1544614055
ISBN-13: 9781544614052
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2017
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.84d