Giles Milton 'Samurai William' (Hodder and Stoughton, 2002) William Keeling, captain on a ship in a fleet sailing from England to the East in 1615, send to Sir Thomas Roe, first British Ambassador in India and aboard one of the other ships, a sheep, 100 Weymouth oysters and some silk strings for his viol. Sir Thomas was pleased, as he send captain Keeling a set of six Italian madrigals in return.
The book is not great literature, I believe Giles Milton received some fame with a previous book "Nathaniel's Nutmeg", but the facts seem to be well researched. There is a list of sources, for those interested. David - back to gut (and oyters!) -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
