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，前往东印度。

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度地区。

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 乃荷兰於东印度洋的首都。

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，西印度群岛的糖和东印度群岛的。

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

英国人转为前往印度次大陆殖民，后又转向波斯，而荷兰人则去往了东印度群岛。

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东印度群岛存在早期人类的化石。

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

只有几艘帆船，运货到印度，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.

他以为他在去印度的途中登上了东印度群岛，因此他称在那儿遇到的人为印第安人。

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

事实上，正是来自东印度群岛的茶叶——加了大量来自西印度群岛的糖——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印度海中厉害怕人的黑鲨鱼，真正所谓鲨鱼的一种。

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

香料只在东印度群岛生长，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.

在前往澳大利亚的途中，日本占领了东印度群岛、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度。

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东印度吗？

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度群岛。

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

为了纪念他们，他们将荷兰东印度公司的首府命名为巴达维亚。

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，经由东印度群岛返回？

" 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，此后一直待在东印度群岛。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.

非洲或东印度群岛最野蛮的民族是牧羊人；甚至霍屯督人也是如此。

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。之后才发现，那不是所知的印度，而是西印度群岛，另一个印度是东印度群岛。