Narborough and the Mysterious Don Carlos (1669–71)

From a reading of the preceding chapters, it is evident that the Dutch held the monopoly of intervention into the South Sea in the first half of the seventeenth century. However, in the remaining years, they were to be conspicuous only by their absence as they toiled, ultimately in vain, to hold on to conquests in Brazil, consolidated footholds in Guiana and the West Indies, and expanded their enterprises in the East Indies. Their place was now assumed largely by Englishmen and Frenchmen in the double guise of exploratory trade and buccaneering.1

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