 | System - 1840 - 376 strani
...occurrence of scurvy at sea is to be met with in the narrative of Vasco de Gama, who first discovered a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, in the year l497 ; about a hundred of bit men, out of a hundred and sixty, died of this distemper,... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1841 - 484 strani
...language. The Portuguese first established commercial settlements in Ceylon, soon after their discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Their cruelty, avarice, and fanaticism, evinced in suppressing the religion ol the natives, and converting... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1842 - 500 strani
...language. The Portuguese first established commercial settlements in Ceylon, soon after their discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Their cruelty, avarice, and fanaticism, evinced in suppressing the religion of the natives, and converting... | |
 | James Bischoff - 1842 - 512 strani
...admitted the freest passage to every quarter of the globe. " 2. The discovery of America, and the opening of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, which may be regarded as a consequence of the preceding improvement in navigation, contributed still... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 strani
...was deeply depressed by the change in its commercial prosperity. In the year 1497, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope was made, the European trade with India, which had been exclusively in the hands of the Venetians,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 852 strani
...consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavors to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 872 strani
...consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavors to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - 996 strani
...with which there was no other communication at that time but by Egypt and the Red Sea. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, towards the close of the fifteenth century, gave a fatal stroke to the Italian commerce, by opening... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1845 - 272 strani
...describe it as a " head of gold," shall now be mentioned. Till the improvements in navigation opened a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the Persian Gulf was the great channel through which all traffic from the East flowed into the western... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 strani
...language. The Portuguese first established commercial settlements in Ceylon, soon after their discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Their cruelty, avarice, and fanaticism, evinced in suppressing the religion of the natives, and converting... | |
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The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
