1. The Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains.

2. India and the magical Spice Islands of the East were famed at the time for their gold, pearls, gems, and silk-a source of untold riches.

3. Abreu's expedition, which left malacca for the Spice Islands in December 1511, met with little success.

4. The Portuguese voyages to the spice Islands, which brought the question of Java to the fore.

5. Abreu's expedition, which left Malacca for the Spice Islands in December 1511, met with little success.

6. I essayed all the Disneylands of the world and a selection of tarmacked spice islands.

7. The first 11 months of the conflict in the spice islands cost 750 lives.

8. He and I used to sail together to the Spice Islands to trade in vitamin pills and conch shells.

9. Later when Columbus' mistake was discovered, Spain renamed them the West Indies, to distinguish them from the Spice Islands (the East Indies), which is in the Pacific Ocean and we now call Indonesia.

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10. It was one of the key spices that give the Spice Islands their name, and some historians link its popularity in the spice trade to the hallucinatory effects that result from ingesting large amounts.

11. European explorers - first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands (Indonesia) and then the Spanish - reached the Carolines in the 16th century, with the Spanish establishing sovereignty.

12. However, he subsequently obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve the Spanish Crown, so that he could try to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.

13. At times Columbus became reconciled to the truth that this new land was not China, not Japan, not the spice Islands.

14. Manila became the resort of traders from China, Japan, Siasm, Cambodia and the Spice Islands.