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出发，前往。

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

他们于十七世纪二三十年代至地区。

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 乃荷兰於洋的首都。

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

所以，我们有家里的鸡蛋，西群岛的糖和群岛的调味品。

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

英国转为前往次大陆殖民，后又转向波斯，而荷兰则去往了群岛。

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

也没有任何特别的理由认为荷属群岛存在早期类的化石。

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，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.

他以为他在去的途中登上了群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到的为第安。

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

事实上，正是来自群岛的茶叶——加了大量来自西群岛的糖——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.

看到那鳍梢现出的黑颜色，我认出这条鲨鱼就是海中厉害怕的黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼的一种。

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

香料只在群岛生长，当然运输成本是天数字。 ？

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

在前往澳大利亚的途中，日本占领了群岛、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。

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

他真的想一路到底去到荷属吗？

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

但英国水手们并不仅仅关注群岛。

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的非凡之旅，经由群岛返回？

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

为了纪念他们，他们将荷兰公司的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" .

" 他是白色中队的海军少将，参加过特拉法加战役，此后一直待在群岛。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.

非洲或群岛最野蛮的民族是牧羊；甚至霍屯督也是如此。

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

“我要去群岛——、马来亚、菲律宾… … 你为什么不跟我一起去”？