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The Bahia-Goa Route in the Dispersal of Brazilian Plants to Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Peter Haggett
Peter Haggett*
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Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
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Abstract

Although the Portuguese route from Lisbon to Goa via Bahia and Cape of Good Hope was the first direct route from South America to Southeast Asia, it was so little used that it was unimportant in the introduction of American plants into Asia. It is more likely that American plants brought first to Portugal were carried directly from there to Asia.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1959 , pp. 267 - 268
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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