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Eustatia had but one road, and there was no other way of taking in cargoes but that of overschippen,* to which the English had objected, a condemnation of these ships, as legal prizes, would give the finishing stroke to the trade of the colony. * The method called overschippen is that of using French boats to load Dutch vessels with the produce of France.
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