They also increased trade with the mother country for, out of the cash collected in the fish markets of Europe and the West Indies, the colonists paid for English manufactures.

他们还增加了与母国的贸易，因为殖民者用在欧洲和西印度群岛的鱼市上收集到的现金支付了英国制造的费用。

We don't know  exactly why that is but it might be because of the same misapprehension that means we call the  West Indies the West Indies even though they're not in India.

我们不知道为什么会这样，但这可能是因为同样的误解，这意味着我们称西印度群岛为西印度群岛，即使它们不在印度。

Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, the most fertile mines in Europe may have afforded as great a rent to their proprietors as the richest mines in Peru do at present.

在发现西属西印度群岛之前，欧洲最肥沃的矿山向其所有者提供的租金可能与目前秘鲁最富饶的矿山所提供的一样多。

An end was put to their trade with the Spanish West Indies; the remainder of their trading stock was turned into an annuity stock; and the company ceased, in every respect, to be a trading company.

他们与西班牙西印度群岛的贸易结束了；他们剩余的交易股票变成了年金股票；公司在各方面都不再是一家贸易公司。