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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 259: In Bombay harbor, ...
Description:      In Bombay harbor, Tom, Nathaniel, and Tudor pace the deck, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Sultan of Gujarat and representatives of the British East India Company. When they arrive, Tom, in an inspired scene, delivers two simultaneous sales pitches, one directed toward the interests of the Indians, one toward the British. The final disclosure of the ice is a huge success with both. Tom offers a sample piece to the Sultan as a gift.     The cargo of ice is being unloaded when hundreds of fierce, armed Indians arrive and surround the wharf. The Sultan himself arrives, in high dudgeon, a...