He said the ship stopped in a city in South Africa............it was a convenient port of call................b/c of the length of time to and fro the Far East and Central Asia..........the spice route.............they did go by land.............but by sea was easier.........

And as far as England and Holland are concerned..........both fought China in the Opium Wars in the late 1800s........................which is where they say the stock market started...........

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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 – 1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues (120,000 miles) in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. In 1675 ...

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