... India were high, the risks were higher. "Two monsoons are the age of a man" ran a gloomy company saying, and many a company man did not survive his first six months of punishing heat and dust. If he were not laid low by malaria, cholera or smallpox, he was likely to be undone by such exotic threats as snakebite, heatstroke, jungle fever or local dancing ... girls. None of this was helped, of course, by amateur doctors who thought the best cure for cholera was a red-hot iron on the heel. Small wonder that Bombay became known as the "buying ground of the English." As the Mogul empire bega...

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... landed near present day Kingston without any serious opposition. The route to St. Jago was undefended and the town nearly so, however the commanders, Admiral Penn and General Venables, halted their troops and convened a council of war. Fearful of the potential Spanish forces laying in wait in the thick jungle, the British force took one week to cover the six miles to St. Jago and affect its surrender ... . The article of surrender allowed the residents to leave the island, but allowed them to carrying away nearly every item of value. Thus looting was ... kept to a minimum, but the strid...

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