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74 THE STRUGGLE FOR THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO actual possession, or effective occupation. But it long served as a national rallying cry. In 1606 Sir Henry Middleton asserted our right to a factory in the Moluc- cas, " for that Sir Francis Drake had trade in Ternate SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. before the name of the Hollanders was known in those parts of the world.' f As late as 1652 it formed a basis of a discourse, the East India Trade first discovered by the English, in which the author gravely relates how the Dutch " took the advantage of the negligent and inconsiderate English " to secure the profits of Drake's
