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Cornelis de Houtman had been sent by…
Cornelis de Houtman had been sent by Dutch merchants to Lisbon to gather as much information as he could about the Spice Islands in the same year the capture of the Madre de Deus had galvanized English interest in the Far East.
The Compagnie van Verre (meaning "the long-distance company"), a forerunner of the Dutch East India Company, is set up in 1594 by nine citizens of Amsterdam to break Portugal's monopoly on the pepper trade.
To do this, it plans an expedition of three heavily armed ships and a pinnace under the leadership of de Houtman, with orders to break into the trade. (Cornelis's brother Frederick also works for the Company.)
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The Atlantic Lands
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West Europe
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