| 1803 - 400 σελίδες
...narrative of the progress of trade with that country from the conquest of Egypt by the Mahomcdans to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the learned author filled, as was to be expected, the greatest part of it with details on the commerce... | |
| William Robertson - 1810 - 412 σελίδες
...the knowledge which the ancients had of India, and the progress of trade with* that country prior to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope. The perusal of Major Rennell's memoir for illustrating his map of Hindostan, suggested to Dr. Robertson... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1815 - 420 σελίδες
...ports in the Arabian Gulph, but soon lost them. Commerce of Florence, Venice, and Leghorn with Egypt, before the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope. § During the Median War, as we shall shortly see. | Inarns, who caused Egypt to rise in insurrection... | |
| 1828 - 746 σελίδες
...Tobago were conquered from France, Trinidad from Spain, and Demerara from the Dutch.' ‘Previous to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the intercourse between India and Europe was carried on, partly through the Guiph of Persia to Constantinople,... | |
| Alexander Dirom - 1827 - 90 σελίδες
...freedom, and happiness of Europe, will ultimately be spread over the whole globe."f . i Previous to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the intercourse between India and Europe was carried on, partly through the Gulph * In the Bay of Benin,... | |
| 1832 - 510 σελίδες
...himself; and are considered on all hands to be unimpeachable. Comparatively few Europeans visited India before the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope in the end of the fifteenth century. At that time Pope Alexander VI., whose gross vices rendered him... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 σελίδες
...A continuation of the Introduction continues the historical sketch from the time of the Crusades to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope. The body of the work contains the Maritime Laws of Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Bremen, Hamburg, Lubeck,... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1837 - 604 σελίδες
...enjoyed an early celebrity, of which only faint traces are now to be found. At all periods anterior to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the greater part of the rich commodities of India were transported either up the Red Sea, or across Arabia... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 646 σελίδες
...Sea, notwithstanding the difficulty, danger, and tediousness of its navigation, was for many ages, before the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the principal if not the sole channel of communication between Egypt and other countries. But from the... | |
| 1839 - 444 σελίδες
...Events such as these are as likely, and more likely, to occur than a Russian conquest of Hindustan. Before the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the products of India were carried over-land into Europe —Alexandria in Egypt being the great emporium.... | |
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