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

他们于十七世纪二三十年代至印度地区。

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

在1699年我们从英格兰的布里斯托尔，往印度。

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

逾 300 年来，雅加达冠「巴达维亚」一名 乃荷兰於印度洋的首都。

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

英国人转为往印度次大陆殖民，随后又转向波斯，而荷兰人则去往印度群岛。

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

只有几艘帆，运货物到印度，向好望角驶去。

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

所以，我们有家里的鸡蛋，西印度群岛的糖和印度群岛的调味品。

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

也没有任何特别的理由认为荷属印度群岛存在早期人类的化石。

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

他以为他在去印度的途中登印度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到的人为印第安人。

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

香料只在印度群岛生长，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.

在往澳大利亚的途中，日本占领印度群岛、关岛和威克岛。

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

非洲或印度群岛最野蛮的民族是牧羊人；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'?

“我要去印度群岛——印度、马来亚、菲律宾… … 你为什么不跟我一起去”？

Europe, however, has hitherto derived much less advantage from its commerce with the East Indies, than from that with America.

然而，迄今为止，欧洲从与印度群岛的贸易中获得的优势远不如从与美洲的贸易中获得的优势。

This, perhaps, is nearly the present state of Bengal, and of some other of the English settlements in the East Indies.

这也许几乎就是孟加拉和印度群岛其他一些英国定居点的现状。

During the sixteenth century, the Portuguese were the only European nation who carried on any regular trade to the East Indies.

在 16 世纪， 葡萄牙人是唯一与印度群岛进行任何定期贸易的欧洲国家。

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.

看到那鳍梢现的黑颜色，我认这条鲨鱼就是印度海中厉害怕人的黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼的一种。

" 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" .

" 他是白色中队的海军少将，参加过特拉法加战役，此后一直待在印度群岛。我想，他驻守在那里已经好多年。"

To obtain the oil in the Dutch East Indies, Japan had to engage in war with the  world's two most significant naval powers.

为获得荷属印度群岛的石油，日本不得不与世界两个最重要的海军强国交战。

Africa, however, as well as several of the countries comprehended under the general name of the East Indies, is inhabited by barbarous nations.

然而，非洲以及统称为印度群岛的几个国家居住着野蛮民族。

So he called it India. Afterwards, when it was found that this was not the country known before as India, it was called the West Indies, and the other India the East Indies.

所以他把当地成为印度。之后才现，那不是所知的印度，而是西印度群岛，另一个印度是印度群岛。