What does east-indies mean?

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east-indies

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

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"Let it ſuffice to inform him, that in our Paſſage from thence to the Eaſt-Indies, we were driven by a violent Storm to the Northweſt of Van Diemen's Land."

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