Examples of 'east indies' in a sentence
Meaning of "east indies"
east indies: The term East Indies historically refers to the islands of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia, which were known for their spices and trade routes
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- Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago.
- plural of East Indie
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I am bringing in some coolies from the east indies.
British east indies company.
I have decided to set up a new trading company in the East Indies.
I want to move to the East Indies and live on a rubber plantation.
As a captain he served two years and eight months in the East Indies.
We were in the East Indies at the time.
The aim of this assault was to capture the oil resources in the East Indies.
My relatives in the Dutch East Indies used to write to us a lot.
He published a few books and several articles concerning his work in the East Indies.
They participated in combat in the East Indies as well as on the European front.
In the following year he went to the East Indies.
I have relatives in the Dutch East Indies who wrote us many letters.
He served at home and on ships in the East Indies.
Cinnamon is grown in the East Indies and reaches thirty feet in height.
To find a shorter route to the East Indies.
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Served in the East Indies and Pacific at the end of the war.
A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
At that time Dutch East Indies still much needed to be organized and improved.
Hopes of discovering a new route to the East Indies.
The finances of the Netherlands East Indies have always been administered as a separate entity.
The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.
Opinions about whether trade with the East Indies would be profitable enough diverged.
It is a highly valued article of food in the East Indies.
The discovery led the Dutch East Indies government to take steps to safeguard the monument.
No one knew what to expect in the East Indies.
The Dutch East Indies had a non egalitarian and patriarchal social and legal system.
Lamont also had financial interests in the East Indies.
Dutch East Indies national football team.
He had been searching for a new route to the East Indies.
Daendels faced difficult conditions in the Dutch East Indies when he started the road construction.
Most of the stories within it were set in the East Indies.
It was also known as Spanish East Indies to the colonialists.
The largest supply of sago comes from the East Indies.
We served in the East Indies together.
Mataram is a de facto and de yure controlled by the Dutch East Indies.
I wanted to see the East Indies again.
These developments allowed the entry of chartered companies into the East Indies.
Trade with the East Indies c.
The poison has been used for centuries by natives of the East Indies.
Dutch East Indies was to blame.
He was in the Trafalgar action and has been in the East Indies since.
East Indies and Southeast Asia to get new resources.
They could be found at all major trading posts in the East Indies.
Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies during the war.
Young leaves are cooked and eaten like spinach in the East Indies.
The Dutch East Indies were covered much less well artistically.
His accomplices were sent into exile to the Dutch East Indies without trial.
The West and East Indies regurgitate wealth we could all profit from.
The remaining eleven vessels served either in the East Indies or in the Pacific.
The Dutch East Indies has become the most precious colony for Dutch crown.
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