“The word Spice,” the Atlas claims, “as antiently understood, included all the Species of aromatic Vegetables.” But after the discovery of exotic East Indies produce, “nothing is call’d Spice but the Nutmeg, with its mace, and the Clove.” Amboyna, a Dutch colony, produced cloves, and had once contained an English factory, which the Dutch expelled in 1623. The mercantile narrator, animated by lost revenue and loss of life, decries the Dutch assault as “a Scene so full of Barbarity, and not only unchristian but even inhuman Cruelty, that were it not that the History of the Place necessarily calls for it, and Justice to the Memory of the Innocent Gentlemen who were butcher’d requires it, I should bury it in Silence…as a Thing not fit to be remember’d.” The consequence of the outrage was mercantile: “The English by this Treatment were ousted of the Factory, and in consequence of the Spice-Trade, which is now wholly engross’d by the Dutch.”