 | William Stevenson - 1824 - 674 Seiten
...monopoly of the Indian trade, prohibited all individuals from navigating to the Indian Ocean, either round the Cape of Good Hope or through the Straits of Magellan. It was therefore an object of great importance to discover, if practicable, any passage to India, which... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 674 Seiten
...monopoly of the Indian trade, prohibited all individuals from navigating to the Indian Ocean, either round the Cape of Good Hope or through the Straits of Magellan. It was therefore an object of great importance to discover, if practicable, any passage to India, which... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 Seiten
...monopoly of the Indian trade, prohibited all individuals from navigating to the Indian Ocean, either round the Cape of Good Hope or through the Straits of Magellan. It was therefore an object of great importance to discover, if practicable, any passage to India, which... | |
 | Historical account - 1836 - 510 Seiten
...own vessels, and, coming home in command of the Amsterdam and Zealand, arrived on the 1st July 1617By the charter of the Dutch East India Company, no other...allowed to pass round the Cape of Good Hope or through theStraitsof Magellan to the Moluccas, — a prohibition supposed to be sufficient to secure to that... | |
 | ACCOUNT. - 1837 - 392 Seiten
...own vessels, and, coming home in command of the Amsterdam and Zealand, arrived on the 1st July, 1617. By the charter of the Dutch East India Company, no...supposed to be sufficient to secure to that body an exclusive trade in the spices. Many English pilots were, however, about this time in the service of... | |
 | Ralph Burland Bodilly - 1928 - 234 Seiten
...constant bad weather, be longer, more dangerous, and more expensive than either of the known routes round the Cape of Good Hope or through the Straits of Magellan. It remained for Franklin to prove how accurate was his judgment. Then he ends his voyage. "The 22d... | |
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... from one port to another, it is necessary to inquire what the usual route is. In some cases there may be more than one usual route. It would be difficult to say that a ship sailing from New Zealand to this country had deviated from her course whether... 