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Sailors Insurance Fund minutes No, 180. Regarding John Smith who sailed on the slave ship the Africa , and lost his sight during the voyage from Calabar, now Nigeria in Africa, to Jamaica. It was due to a Distemper then raging among the slaves.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

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