The Venetians, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, carried on a very advantageous commerce in spiceries and other East India goods, which they distributed among the other nations of Europe.

十四和十五世纪期间，威尼斯人在香料和其东印度商品方面进行了非常有利的贸，将这些商品分配欧洲其国家。

The consumption of the porcelain of China, of the spiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of Bengal, and of innumerable other articles, has increased very nearly in a like proportion.

中国的瓷器、摩鹿加群岛的香料、孟加拉的布料以及无数其物品的消费量几乎以同样的比例增长。

In the spice islands, the Dutch are said to burn all the spiceries which a fertile season produces, beyond what they expect to dispose of in Europe with such a profit as they think sufficient.

在香料群岛，据说荷兰人会烧掉肥沃季节生产的所有香料，这超出了预期在欧洲出售的数量，而认为这样的利润足够了。