 | Samuel Sharpe - 1850 - 504 sider
...country, of which continent Abyssinia was then considered to form a part. In 1487, the practicability of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, being no longer problematical, the Portuguese sovereign naturally desired to be better acquainted with... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 544 sider
...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 Robertson - 1851 - 774 sider
...who inherited the enterprising genius of his predecessors, persisted in their grand scheme of opening a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and, soon after his accession to the throne, equipped a squadron for that important voyage. He gave... | |
 | 1852 - 978 sider
...Ihrir eyes her ample poge, llicli with the spoils of time, diJ ne'er unroll." 3rdly. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, which so deeply interested the public mind. -Ithly. The discovery (if America, which opened up a new... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 560 sider
...possible to resist them. What contributed also greatly to the decline of the republic was the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497. To this time the greatest part of the East India goods imported into Europe passed through... | |
 | Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - 1853 - 264 sider
...mariner's compass, which enabled trading vessels to make much longer voyages, and led to the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, with the settlements made on the coast of Africa, in Arabia, and in India, alfected very materially... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 sider
...de,) an illustrious Portuguese, bom at Sines, on the coast of Portugal, celebrated as the discoverer of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. He set sail from the Tagus on the 8th of July, 1197, with three small vessels, with sixty men ; and... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1855 - 474 sider
...established at Venice, 1157,* which at this period was a place of great trade. Before the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, Venice was the resort of merchants from different parts of the world. — Look at its situation, and... | |
 | William Jardine - 1856 - 380 sider
...Dutch when they landed on the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size and singular form ; its wings short, like those of an Ostrich, and wholly incapable... | |
 | William Robertson - 1856 - 656 sider
...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 lookplace. Their endeavours to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
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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. 
