...accomplice. * * * " We planted a cross on the summit of a neighboring mountain, which we named Monte Cristo, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. * * * " Continuing our course toward the south, on the twenty-first of October, in fifty-two...

...i2th), where, after a brief though desperate struggle with the natives, Cortes disembarked his troops and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. Striking inland, he found that he was in a territory called Tabasco, and that the whole population...

...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....

...name. He entered a bay, wl1ich, 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....

...Alvarez Cabrai reached the coast of Brazil farther to the south than the point touched by Pinzón, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. Towards the close of the year above named Koderigo de Bastidas explored the coast from Cape Vela, the...

...and sweet song, and " people of the finest forms and kindest natures." They set up a stone column, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. A few days later they sailed northward to the South Carolina coast. After the bitter Civil...

...General of Canada with a force of about 235 soldiers and Indians (see Scioto county) down the Ohio and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France, he visited Pickawillany on his return home. Their farthest point west on the Ohio was the mouth...

...General of Canada with a force of about 235 soldiers and Indians (see Scioto county) down the Ohio and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France, he visited Pickawillany on his return home. Their farthest point west on the Ohio was the mouth...

...Thence, continuing tbeir cruise, they cast anchor at the mouth of the Kennebec. Here De Monts raised a cross, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. He traversed Casco Bay, occasionally casting anchor at attractive spots along the silent shores,...

...few leagues, if his observations were correct, to the north of the present city of Saint Augustine, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Castile. He then returned and surveyed the whole coast as far as the southernmost point of the peninsula,...