 | Sir John Scott Keltie - 1895 - 626 страници
...forts should be built to keep off intruders. The Charter of the Dutch Company gave it the monopoly of trade from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope. While, no doubt, gold and ivory and pepper were regarded as important articles of trade, the name of... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 672 страници
...Wherever the Dutch landed, they first subdued and then fortified. Their charter gave them the monopoly of trade from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope. They proceeded accordingly to make valid their claim by conquest. They built forts at intervals all... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 706 страници
...circumstances — such, for instance, as the hostilities of the Portuguese in the East Indies. 675 four years, on conditions nearly similar to that of the...the south boundary of Newfoundland and the Anian or Bering Straits, to those of Magellan and Le Maire. As Spain claimed the sovereignty of a vast portion... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 398 страници
...forts should be built to keep off intruders. .The charter of the Dutch Company gave it the monopoly of trade from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope. While gold and ivory and pepper were regarded as important articles of trade, the name of the company... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 710 страници
...project had been agitated before the commencement of the truce, but steadily opposed by Barneveld, after whose death the states gave permission for the...the south boundary of Newfoundland and the Anian or Bering Straits, to those of Magellan and Le Maire. As Spam claimed the sovereignty of a vast portion... | |
 | Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer - 1909 - 598 страници
...the American coast from Newfoundland to the Straits of Magellan, along the Atlantic shores of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope, in the intermediate islands, and in all places from the Cape westward to the eastern end of New Guinea.... | |
 | Frank Chamberlain - 1909 - 112 страници
...for a period of twenty-four years, as follows : To traffic on the coast and in the interior of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; in America and the West Indies with the power to make engagements, contracts, and alliances with the rulers... | |
 | Frank Chamberlain - 1909 - 182 страници
...for a period of twenty-four years, as follows: To traffic on the coast and in the interior of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope; in America and the West Indies with the power to make engagements, contracts, and alliances with the rulers... | |
 | Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer - 2013 - 569 страници
...the American coast from Newfoundland to the Straits of Magellan, along the Atlantic shores of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope, in the intermediate islands, and in all places from the Cape westward to the eastern end of New Guinea.... | |
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... and its colonial posts it had to keep up a considerable armament. Of course the new company was also to trade; and it was given the exclusive right to do so, and to authorize others to do so, along the American coast from Newfoundland to the Straits... 