1
Bahia rapidly became the most important of these early Portuguese settlements.
2
But the great bane of the Portuguese settlements was slavery.
3
This, I thought, might be obtained at the Portuguese settlements.
4
Yet, save some Portuguese settlements in Brazil, the only European colonies in America were Spanish.
5
On one point he was very clear-thePortuguese settlements among them had not improved them.
6
Thus the whole expedition was broken up, and the survivors found their way to the Portuguese settlements.
7
But their field of labor was soon invaded by multitudes of Dominicans and Franciscans from various Portuguese settlements in Asia.
8
On April 1st they gained the ridge which overlooks the valley of the Quango and the Portuguese settlements on the farther bank.
9
Tidore was the furthest of the Portuguese settlements, and the ship, having now made her round, was to return direct to Goa.
10
Soon after this they had evidence that they were approaching the Portuguese settlements, by meeting a person with a jacket and hat on.
11
The hope of obtaining access to the heart of Africa by another route than that through the Portuguese settlements was still in Livingstone's heart.
12
So early as in the year 1503, a few slaves had been sent from the Portuguese settlements in Africa into the Spanish colonies in America.
13
Of the three hundred and seventy men who had left New Spain, only one hundred and forty-seven survive to reach the Portuguese settlements in India.
14
In all the Portuguese settlements the "assai" is a favourite drink, and is taken along with cassava bread, as we use milk or coffee.
