Dutch East India Company in 1653 and shipped off to Batavia in the Spice I...  ...tolen. Rumphius reconstructed them again, and the Dutch East India Company prevented them from being published. But he soldi...  ...also had to invent names in his adopted language, Dutch . He took o...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi...  ...brown nut from Indonesia- nutmeg. Especially the Dutch , who monopolized its cultivation and, in doing so...  ...ope in 1498 and showed up in the spice markets of India . It marked the beginning of the decline of Arab d...  ...get a piece of the action. I...