We'd set sail from Bristol in England in 1699 and were heading for the East Indies.

在1699年我们从英格兰布里斯托尔出发，前往东印。

They reach the East Indies in the 1620s and the 1630s.

他们于十七世纪二三十年代至东印地。

For over 300 years, the city was called Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies.

逾 300 年来，雅加达冠上了「巴达维亚」一名 乃荷兰於东印洋首都。

So, we've had eggs from home, sugar from the West Indies and spice from the East Indies.

所以，我们有家里鸡蛋，西印群岛糖和东印群岛调味品。

The British turned to the Indian subcontinent and then to Persia, the Dutch to the East Indies.

英国人转为前往印次大陆殖民，后又转向波斯，而荷兰人则去往了东印群岛。

Nor was there any special reason to suppose that the East Indies would hold early human remains.

也没有任何特别理由认为荷属东印群岛存在早期人类化石。

A few sailing ships, laden for the East Indies, were heading toward the Cape of Good Hope.

只有几艘帆船，运货物到印，向好望角驶去。

He thought that he had landed in the East Indies on his way to India, so he called the people he met there.

他以为他在去印登上了东印群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到人为印第安人。

Indeed, it was tea from the East Indies – heavily sweetened with sugar from the West Indies – that fuelled the Industrial Revolution.

事实上，正是来自东印群岛茶叶——加了大量来自西印群岛糖——推动了工业革命。

From the black markings on the tips of its fins, I recognized the dreadful Squalus melanopterus from the seas of the East Indies, a variety in the species of sharks proper.

看到那鳍梢现出黑颜色，我认出这条鲨鱼就是印海厉害怕人黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼一种。

Spices only grew in the East Indies and of course transportation costs were astronomical. ?

香料只在东印群岛生长，当然运输成本是天文数字。 ？

Along its way to Australia, Japan took the East Indies, Guam, and Wake Island.

在前往澳大利亚，日本占领了东印群岛、关岛和威克岛。

Burma, Siam, Malaya, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.

缅甸、暹罗、马来亚、菲律宾以及荷属东印。

Does he actually want to go all the way down to the Dutch East Indies?

他真想一路到底去到荷属东印吗？

But English sailors were not just looking to the East Indies.

但英国水手们并不仅仅关注东印群岛。

Or should he contemplate an extraordinary journey across the Pacific and go back via the East Indies?

或者他应该考虑一次穿越太平洋非凡之旅，经由东印群岛返回？

It was in honor of them that they called the capital of the Dutch East Indies Batavia.

为了纪念他们，他们将荷兰东印公司首府命名为巴达维亚。

" He is a rear admiral of the white. He was in the Trafalgar action, and has been in the East Indies since; he was stationed there, I believe, several years" .

" 他是白色队海军少将，参加过特拉法加战役，此后一直待在东印群岛。我想，他驻守在那里已经好多年了。"

The most barbarous nations either of Africa or of the East Indies, were shepherds; even the Hottentots were so.

非洲或东印群岛最野蛮民族是牧羊人；甚至霍屯督人也是如此。

'I'm going out to the East Indies—India, Malaya, the Philippines... Why don't you come with me'?

“我要去东印群岛——印、马来亚、菲律宾… … 你为什么不跟我一起去”？