 | General history - 1815 - 802 pages
...in such countries as you may discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power, and to distribute among the inhabitants...and testimonies of your having been there ; but if yon find the countries so discovered are uninhabited, you are to take possession of them for his majesty,... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1821 - 488 pages
...such countries as you may dis" cover, that have not already been discovered or visited " by any other European power; and to distribute among " the inhabitants...Majesty, by setting up proper " marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and pos«' sessors. " But forasmuch as, in undertakings of this nature, several... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 532 pages
...such countries as you may discover, that have not ,already been discovered or visited by any other European power, and to distribute among the inhabitants...majesty, by setting up proper marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and ,possessors. 1 But forasmuch as, in undertakings of this nature, several emergencies... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - Colonization - 1838 - 344 pages
...such countries as you shall discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power; and to distribute among the inhabitants...Majesty, by setting up proper marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and possessors.* — 6th July, 1776. The clause, which makes taking possession... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - America - 1840 - 254 pages
...in such countries as he might discover, that had not been already discovered or visited by any other European Power, and to distribute among the inhabitants such things as will remain as traces of his having been there ; but if he should find those countries uninhabited, he was to take possession... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - History - 1844 - 514 pages
...in such countries as he might discover, that had not been already discovered or visited by any other European power; and to distribute, among the inhabitants, such things as will remain as traces of his having been there : but, if he should find the countries so discovered to be uninhabited, he... | |
 | Edward Jerningham Wakefield - Maori (New Zealand people) - 1845 - 528 pages
...things as will remain as traces and tes" timonies of your having been there ; but if you find '" that the countries so discovered are uninhabited, you "'are...Majesty, by " setting up proper marks and inscriptions as first dis" coverers and possessors." Cook suggested the regular colonization of New Zealand ; but... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - New York (State) - 1867 - 772 pages
...in such countries as he might discover, that had not been already discovered or visited by any other European Power, and to distribute among the inhabitants such things as will remain as traces of his having been there ; but, if he should find the countries so discovered to be uninluitiited,... | |
 | James Cook - Explorers - 1880 - 538 pages
...in such countries as you may discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power ; and to distribute among the inhabitants...majesty, by setting up proper marks and inscriptions as first • discoverers and possessors. " But forasmuch as, in undertakings of this nature, several... | |
 | 1882 - 94 pages
...already been discovered or visited by any other European power; and to distribute among the mhabitants such things as will remain as traces and testimonies...majesty, by setting up proper marks and inscriptions as first discoverers and possessors. " But forasmuch as, in undertakings of this nature, several emergencies... | |
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You are also, with the consent of the natives, to take possession in the name of the King of Great Britain, of convenient situations in such countries as you may discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power, and... 
