Excerpt from British and Native Cochin Immediately Eur0pe was informed of the existence of new fields of wealth, little inducement was required to stimulate research; and England, in discovering North America; Portugal in turning the Cape of Good Hope, and extending her power to India, China, 8m. And Holland, in developing the wealth of the Southern Seas; are entitled to feelings of pride in the energy of their subjects. But it is to Spain's great Queen isabella that the credit must be given of originating these vast expeditions - ruinous however as have been the effects to her country of that wealth she was so mainly inatra mental ih introducing into Europe. 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.