After his return to the Netherlands, he wrote two books containing valuable information about the peoples and customs of the country; these books were influential in stimulating early Dutch and English trade expeditions to India and the East Indies.
A capitalist would lend money for a marine trading expedition.
In April 1601, in command of the Red Dragon, Lancaster went on the first trading expedition of the East India Company.
John Hawkins commanded the first English slave-trading expedition in 1562 and sold his cargo in the Spanish Indies.
In 1822 he joined a fur-trading expedition to the Rocky Mountains and continued in the Rocky Mountain trade for the remainder of the decade.
On a trading expedition soon after to the island of Saint Christopher (now Saint Kitts and Nevis) in the West Indies, Minuit was lost at sea in a hurricane.
In her book Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire, Jean Jefferies suggests that, like most things, it may have been introduced by the Phoenicians while on a trading expedition up the Bristol channel.
In command first of the "Lady Washington" and later of the "Columbia," Gray sailed from Boston to the Pacific Northwest on a trading expedition in 1787 and travelled home around the world, reaching Boston again in August 1790.
Cornelis and Frederik de Houtman, (respectively, born c. 1540, Gouda, Neth. died Sept. 11, 1599, Aceh, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies; born 1571, Gouda, Neth. died Oct. 21, 1627, Alkmaar), brothers who navigated and led the first Dutch trading expedition to the East Indies, an area whose trade previously had been a Portuguese monopoly.
According to Laxdæla Saga, Hoskuld purchased a mute thrall-woman from a Rus' merchant on Brännö while on a trading expedition to Norway, and made her his concubine while away from his wife Jorunn Bjarnadottir.
