English pioneers in exploration found an instrument for colonization in companies of merchant adventurers, which had long been employed in carrying on commerce with foreign countries.

——英国的探险先驱们在商人冒险家的公司中找到了一种殖民化的工具，这种工具长期以来一直被用来与外国进行商业往来。

A great land corporation, the Transylvania Company, emulating the merchant adventurers of earlier times, secured a huge grant of territory and sought profits in quit rents from lands sold to farmers.

一家伟大的土地公司， 即特兰西瓦尼亚公司， 效仿早期的商人冒险家，获得了大量的领土， 并从出售给农民的土地中获取租金以获取利润。