Between 1742 and 1778 he made ten trips to India and China, becoming a captain in 1750 for the Swedish East India Company.
All departures and arrivals should be out of Gothenburg, and cargo was to be auctioned promptly in Gothenburg on arrival, The Swedish state was to receive 100 riksdaler on each shipment, plus taxes: in 1712 100 riksdaler was worth 1200 marks.
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The reaction from the Swedish government was reluctant: the closing of the Ostend Company in 1731, based in Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands and closed down in 1731 following British pressure as part of the Treaty of Vienna boded ill for the Swedes' competition against the main powers, where trade and politics were so intimately associated.
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In 1776 he joined a ship of the Swedish East India Company from Gothenburg to China, but fled in Cape Town in April and in September he enlisted as a student of the University of Greifswald, which then was situated in Swedish Pomerania.
At the invitation of Thunberg he set off in 1783 for Batavia, capital of the Dutch colonial empire, from Göteborg, boarding the “Sophia Magdalena”, a ship belonging to the Swedish East India Company.