 | Domingo Juarros - Central America - 1823 - 540 pages
...with a part of the crews, on the 14th of August, 1502, to perform mass: on the 17th they landed again, and took possession of the country, in the name of the king and queen of Castile. The admiral continued his researches, and on the 2d of November of the same year,... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 544 pages
...made several voyages along the northern coast, sailed up the river St. Lawrence as far as Montreal, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France. The discoveries made by these' men in the service of France, laid the foundation of the French... | |
 | William Allen - North America - 1832 - 816 pages
...In this voyage he visited the greater part of the coast, which surrounds the gulf of St. Lawrence, and took possession of the country in the name of the king; he discovered a bay, which he called baye des Chaleurs, on account of the sultry weather, which he... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - America - 1833 - 294 pages
...himself upon an unknown coast. He landed, discovered the soil to be fertile, and the climate agreeable, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Portugal. This country proved to be Brazil, which is the easternmost country of South America ; and... | |
 | John Mason Peck - Illinois - 1837 - 352 pages
...after descended the Illinois, and then the Mississippi, where he built one or two forts on its banks, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France, and in honor of him called it Louisiana. After descending the Mississippi to its mouth, he... | |
 | Christophe Koch - Electronic books - 1839 - 290 pages
...their licet, while on his route to India, was driven, by contrary winds, on the coast of Brazil (1500), and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. This colony, in the course of time, became highly important, from the rich mines of diamonds... | |
 | 180 pages
...named Baie DCS Chcdeurs, or the Bay of Heat. After having sailed westerly to Gaspe' Bay, he landed and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France, who had fitted out the two ships which he commanded. Soon after this he returned to France,... | |
 | Christian Henry Bateman - 56 pages
...named Baie Dei Chaleurs, or the Hay of Heat. After having sailed westerly to Gaspe' Bay, ho landed and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France, who had fitted out the two ships which he commanded. Soon after this he returned to France,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Farnham - Northwest, Pacific - 1844 - 94 pages
...called it Rio de San Roque. Maurelle explored the coast to 57° north, and surveyed bays, harbors etc., and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. The discoveries of the Spaniards on the northwest coast of America, from the time of Cortez... | |
 | Abraham Gesner - New Brunswick - 1847 - 387 pages
...; but they made no attempt to settle the country. In 1534, Jacques Cartier landed at Bay Chaleurs, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. It is probable that he and his people were the first Europeans who landed in that part of Acadia... | |
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Nuevitas and took possession of the country In the name of the King of Spain. 
