1: DARU,Hist, de Venise,lib. xix. p. 114. RAYNAL,Hist. des Deux Indes, vol. i. p. 156. FARIA Y SOUZA,Portug. Asia, pt. i. ch. viii. vol i. pp. 64, 83, 107, 137.
1: DARU,Hist, de Venise,lib. xix. p. 114. RAYNAL,Hist. des Deux Indes, vol. i. p. 156. FARIA Y SOUZA,Portug. Asia, pt. i. ch. viii. vol i. pp. 64, 83, 107, 137.
But the catastrophe was inevitable; the rich freights of India and China were carried round the "Cape of Storms," and no longer slowly borne on the Tigris and the Nile. The harbours of Ormus and of Bassora became deserted; and on the shores of Asia Minor, where the commerce of Italy had intrenched itself in castles of almost feudal pretension, the rivalries of Genoa and Venice were extinguished in the same calamitous decay.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.