 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1837 - 1032 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. 4 3. The name of Dodo is employed for the first time by Herbert; that of... | |
 | Education - 1837 - 600 pages
...peninsula ? S. Ptolemy Philadelphus, who sent out an expedition for that purpose. M. Who first discovered the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope ? S. The Portuguese in 1497. M. What was the consequence of that discovery ? S. It destroyed the trade... | |
 | Maria Wilson, Spain - Africa, North - 1837 - 216 pages
...extend their voyages beyond the Mediterranean. Vasco di Gama, the Portuguese navigator who discovered the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, was four months in reaching the Cape ; and Sir Francis Drake, who was the first naval commander who... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...projects, and lost the favour of his sovereign. Vasco di Gama, a Portuguese, famous for his discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, 1497. Under John III. he was made viceroy of India; and, in a third voyage, fixed the seat of government... | |
 | 1838 - 530 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 say1, about 1594. ' 3. The name of Dodo is employed for the first time by Herbert ; that... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1840 - 640 pages
...the screw propeller in a sea way. Would not vessels upon this principle be extremely well adapted for the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope ? The challenge to run the Ruby against any vessel afloat has it appears been accepted — bnt Mr.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...inhabitants from the ravages of a malignant fever to which the town is exposed. Before the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, Alexandretta was one of the principal entrepots of the European trade with the east. Its inhabitants... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 424 pages
...favourably situated for trade with the Levant, and all other parts of the Mediterranean Sea. Before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope was discovered ; before navigation was brought to any degree of perfection in Europe, the republics... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...dear as to be beyond the reach of the greater number. It was only after Vasco de Gama had discovered the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, and Columbus, about the same time, the continent of America, that these vast countries, with their... | |
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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. 
