History Of The Colony Of The Cape Of Good Hope From Its Discovery To The Year 1819 PDF Download

Excerpt from History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope: From Its Discovery to the Year 1819; From 1820 to 1868 The prosecution of trade, and the acquirement of riches, as well as the extension of Christianity, were the ruling incentives to maritime discovery. The de struction of the monopoly of Eastern trade enjoyed by the Italian Republics was the chief object which the Portuguese had in View when they fitted out expeditions to sail round Africa to India; and we shall shortly see Holland, in its turn, endeavouring to supplant the new monopoly, by establishing one of its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.