 | William Fox - 1792 - 20 pages
...the Coast on the West side of Africa, the Inhabitants of those parts were scarcely known till after the discovery of the Passage round the Cape of Good Hope, by the Portuguese, who then found the Inhabitants were continually at war with each other ; they murder'd all their Prisoners,... | |
 | Quintin Craufurd - 1817 - 758 pages
...to have been afterwards as much favoured by it, as they formerly had been by the Christian Emperors. The discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope, by Vasco de Gama, in 1497, changed the course of trade between Europe and India. The first enterprize... | |
 | George Spratt - 1830 - 780 pages
...through the hands of the Venetians, who at that time engrossed all the commerce of the East: but after the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese, this latter nation bt'came the sole importers, aud so continued until 1G45, when many of their Indian... | |
 | 1834 - 810 pages
...measure, until European commerce and intercourse with the East, were diverted from this ancient channel by the discovery of the passage round the cape of Good Hope, by the Portuguese, in the fifteenth century. In this general rendezvous of all nations, this navdaxtiov for all tribes,... | |
 | 1838 - 524 pages
...the time of Arrian. Alexandria continued to supply the nations of Europe with Indian articles till the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama in 1 498. But the western nations of Asia were principally supplied by the merchants... | |
 | 1839 - 524 pages
...the time of Arrian. Alexandria continued to supply the nations of Europe with Indian articles till the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama in 1 488. But the western nations of Asia were principally supplied by the merchants... | |
 | Mary Bowley - 1842 - 538 pages
...twenty years, and her prosperity visibly declined. But the main cause of the prostration of Venice, was the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese. Hitherto the produce of the East had, as in the times of the Phoenicians, reached the shores of the... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 872 pages
...change was made in the commercial routes of communication with India from the time of the Romans, until the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama. The ancients were contented with traffic, and after the time of Alexander made no efforts... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 852 pages
...change was made in the commercial routes of communication with India from the time of the Romans, until the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama. The ancients were contented with traffic, and after the time of Alexander made no efforts... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 382 pages
...change was made in the commercial routes of communication with India from the time of the Romans, until the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama. The ancients were contented with traffic, and after the time of Alexander made no efforts... | |
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Eastern side, appear to have been the principal carriers, and from the accounts which they carried back with them, of the Island they had visited, probably arose those Moorish and Malayan invasions, which we have noted as having become exceedingly numerous,... 
