 | John MacNaught - Bible - 1856 - 366 pages
...printing press gave a novel power of disseminating thoughts new and old. The discovery of America and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope quickened the spirit of mercantile adventure ; and generally set men thinking freely and independently... | |
 | James Copland - 1858 - 748 pages
...undertaken, scurvy appeared in an unmistakeable form. During the voyage of VASCO DE GAMA, who first made the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, more than one hundred of his men out of one hundred and sixty died of this malady. 'I he History of... | |
 | David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...the purposes of navigation, in the same century, coincided nearly with the discovery of America, and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope ; and by the certainty which that invention contributed to the science of navigation, those distant... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...system of the Deluge. ,l, Venice was the most flourishing city in Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. J Those who fled to some marshes in the Adriatic Gulf, from the desolation... | |
 | Roderick Flanagan - Australasia - 1862 - 628 pages
...and extensive commerce. 1770.] The year of Cook's visit was 1770. After the discovery of America, and the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the question was raised among geographers, whether the southern hemisphere beyond the known latitudes... | |
 | Thomas Austin Bullock - Europe - 1863 - 336 pages
...Mary's reign — wide-toed shoes, were common among the gentlemen. (6.) The discovery of America and of the passage to the East Indies — by the Cape of Good Hope — had greatly increased trade. In 1562 Englishmen first engaged in that inhuman traffic, the slave... | |
 | Daniel O'Gorman - 1865 - 506 pages
...Reformation by Martin Luther ; the Suppression of the Monasteries in England ; the Discovery of America, and the Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope ; the Exploring of the East by the Portuguese, and the West by the Spaniards ; the Beheading of Mary,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 586 pages
...2. These traces exist in Europe since the epoch when the Dutch began to take part in the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, that is to say, about 1594. " 3. The name of Dodo is employed for the first time by Herbert, that of... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...conquest in the Kast, in consequence of the success of Vasco de Gama, who had recently accomplished the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. [AFRICA.] The northern coast of the province of Nueva Granada, from Cape de Vela to the Gulf of Darieu,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 598 pages
...conquest in the East, in consequence of the success of Vasco de Gama, who hod recently accomplished the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. [AFRICA.] The northern coast of the province of Nueva Granada, from Cape de Vela to the Gulf of Dorieu,... | |
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Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. 
