Furthermore, in the 19th and early 20th centuries Britain was the world's richest power; by comparison, the Portuguese did not have the capital to go in for large-scale colonial activities.
除此，十九世紀、二十世紀初，英國是當時全世界最富有的強權國家，相形之下，葡萄牙人沒有這麼多資本進行大規模殖民。