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他东印度商品方面进行了非常有利的贸易，他们将这些商品分配给欧洲其他国家。

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他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，这超出了他们预期在欧洲出售的数量，而他们认为这样的利润足够了。