 | Horace Elisha Scudder - United States - 1897 - 592 pages
...name. He entered a bay, which, on account of the heat, he named the Bay of Chaleur. There he landed and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. This ceremony consisted in setting up a cross and fastening upon it the king's coat-of-arms.... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1897 - 596 pages
...name. He entered a bay, which, on account of the heat, he named the Bay of Chaleur. There he landed and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. This ceremony consisted in setting up a cross and fastening upon it the king's coat-of-arms.... | |
 | Self-culture - 1899 - 972 pages
...vessels, went on shore, and after some pleasant intercourse with the Indians, erected a stone pillar and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. This is the first scene in the most bloody tragedy ever enacted in the New World. To understand... | |
 | Lawton Bryan Evans - Georgia - 1900 - 432 pages
...Spanish name for Easter Sunday. A few days later he landed near the present site of St. Augustine, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. He turned southward, and passing through Florida Straits sailed up the western coast to a bay... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 578 pages
...the year Alvarez Cabral reached the coast of Brazil farther south than the point touched by Pinzon, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. In 1,113 Vasco Nuiiez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien, and discovered the Pacific Ocean. In... | |
 | William Ellsworth Smythe - San Diego (Calif.) - 1907 - 438 pages
...crew similarly attired and received by the Indian chiefs and their 150 followers. He unfurled the flag and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain; then, having read his declaration, he planted his sword in the sand before the flag, kissed... | |
 | William Ellsworth Smythe - History - 1907 - 856 pages
...crew similarly attired and received by the Indian chiefs and their 150 followers. He unfurled the flag and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain ; then, having read his declaraCASE OF THE "ITATA" 459 tion, he planted his sword in the sand... | |
 | Alcée Fortier, John Rose Ficklen - Central America - 1907 - 674 pages
...beautiful city, and he was told that the six others beyond were still more beautiful. He erected a cross and took possession of the country in the name of the king, naming it the kingdom of San Francisco. He then set out on his return journey and arrived at Mexico... | |
 | James Baldwin - United States - 1908 - 380 pages
...The Matthew sailed along within sight of it for nearly nine hundred miles. Cabot landed now and then and took possession of the country in the name of the king of England. But he found no such beautiful and interesting things as Columbus had discovered farther south.... | |
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Brazil (1500), and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. 
