The alarm which fell upon our little colonyat this news can be readily understood.
On the 15th of March we celebrated the fiftieth birthday of Bishop Comboni with general rejoicings: in the evening the European colony dined at the Mission, and then followed a soiree.
The Epistle to the Colossians supposes a powerful Jewish colony in Laodicea and the neighbourhood.
If so, their commercial instincts would constantly bring fresh recruits to a colony which was already very considerable.
Colony was descending to undignified means of increasing the revenue by the sale of stamps to collectors.
The British West African possession known as the Colony and Protectorate of the Gambia occupies a narrow strip of territory (averaging 12 miles in width) on both sides of the Gambia river.
Stamps of Gambia can also occasionally be found with the postmark of the French Colony of Senegambia.
Mr. Archer also gives this year (1866) as the date when the first postage stamps of the Colonywere issued.
In 1868 it was again annexed to Sierra Leone, and not until twenty years later was it created a separate Crown Colony with a Governor and responsible government of its own.
After being faithful for nearly thirty years to the graceful design of the "cameo" stamps the Colony adopted the regular De la Rue type printed from a general key plate which did duty for a number of colonial issues.
From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, postal packets may be sent by post between such places in the Colony of the Gambia and the Protected Territories adjacent thereto as may be from time to time notified by the Administrator.
At present the staple trade of the Colony is ground nuts, but efforts are being made to induce the natives to take up other products.
The Methodist Church in this country is the offspring of a colony sent hither from England.
The foundation of thecolony of Maryland was peacefully and happily laid.
All this you had achieved while you still were, and gloried in being, a colony of England.
The members of the colony of New Sweden were honest, upright people, who dwelt in peace with the natives.
Several years ago there was a flourishing colony of natives at the entrance to Kaluda Bay, but now there are only two hunting barabaras, a broken down chapel, and a good-sized graveyard.
In 1691 the capital of Virginia was removed from Jamestown to Williamsburg, and the importance of the old colony ceased, until it is now but a site of ruins.
Before many weeks had passed George Popham attempted to plant a colony in the part assigned to the Plymouth Company, but it utterly failed.
Through sorrow and privations, surrounded by the nameless terrors of an unknown wilderness, harassed by savages, and disheartened by sickness, the little colony survived as by a miracle, and became the nucleus of a nation.
In 1624 each member of the colony received a parcel of land, which he was allowed to work for himself.
The colony was united with that of Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
In spite of Indian massacres the colony and all Virginia grew.
Every member of the Colony seemed able to talk Arabic like a native and, as they used to say in the up- state papers, a good time was being had by all.
A man of moderate private means, he owned a stone house in the German Colony with its back to the Valley of Hinnom.
It was a prosperous colony until the Kaiser, putting two and two, made five of them and had to guess again.
I saw him this afternoon in Bedouin costume in the American Colony store.
There is an American Colony in Jerusalem--a community concern that runs a one-price store, and is even more savagely criticized than the British Administration, as is only natural.
My suspicion is that he took the simple course of getting the American Colony to send one of their men; but as they never referred to it afterwards, and might have their own reasons for keeping silence, I took care not to ask them.
The following day was Sunday, and I had an invitation to a sort of semi-public tea given by the American Colony after their afternoon religious service.
The American Colony was the one place in the country where a man of any creed could go and be sure that whatever he might say would not be used against him.
Governor Wentworth remonstrated against the change of jurisdiction, but finally by proclamation, "recommended to the proprietors and settlers due obedience to the authorities and laws of the colony of New York.
The French colony at Point a Chevalure vanished with the shadow of the banner of France.
The city of Williamsburg, being the capital of the colony and the residence of the governor, was the seat of intelligence, refinement, and elegance, and offered every advantage for social intercourse.
By the next spring, I had a colony of over a hundred volplas and I shut down the accelerator.
Then someone authoritative would find a colony and observe them.
The spars had been common to the basic colony for years and were the result of serial mutations effecting those greatly elongated fifth fingers that had first appeared in Nijinsky.
My family and I had found a colony of them on our ranch and taught them English.
A large colony of gulls followed the steamer, with ceaseless beat of downy wings, from daylight till dark, and after the first hour they seemed to regard us as old friends.
Yet I am informed, that some champions of the Milesian colony may still be found among the original natives of Ireland.
The other temple of Comana, in Pontus, was a colony from that of Cappadocia, l.
Another colony advanced, with more intrepid courage, towards the shores of the Baltic; associated themselves with the Northern tribes of Germany; and shared the spoil of the Roman provinces of Gaul and Spain.
A numerous colony of Jews had been invited, by the favor of the Ptolemies, to settle in their new capital.
A colonyof exiles found a secure refuge in the mountains of Caucasus, between the Euxine and the Caspian, where they still preserve their name and their independence.
They conjured him not to abandon, or, at least, not to deliver, a faithful colony to the rage of a Barbarian tyrant, exasperated by the three successive defeats which he had experienced under the walls of Nisibis.
The ancient rites of Greece were imitated by the royal colony of Antioch.
The name and glory of the adjacent Seleucia were forever extinguished; and the only remaining quarter of that Greek colony had resumed, with the Assyrian language and manners, the primitive appellation of Coche.
Those cities and districts, about ten years after the colony of the Taifalae, appear in a very desolate state.
Another colony of Idumaeans, flying from the sword of David, took refuge in the dominions of Romulus.
A colony is like a besieged city; each one must serve with his person; each one passes only for what he is worth personally.
V] [If the author means to imply that it was so called by French settlers he is in error, as it is well known to have been founded and named by the first New England colony in Ohio.
Canada is almost the only colony that has been founded exclusively by Frenchmen,[CO] and a complete social organisation was carried thither.
An aristocratic restoration was at work; and with the attack on the colony of Capua the nobility threw down the gauntlet to the regents.
Caesar treated the colony of Comum founded by him as a burgess-colony (Sueton.
Narbo was called thecolony of the Decimani, Baeterrae of the Septimani, Forum Julii of the Octavani, Arelate of the Sextani, Arausio of the Secundani.
Corinth The East In the desolate land of Greece, Caesar, besides other plans such as the institution of a Roman colony in Buthrotum (opposite Corfu), busied himself above all with the restoration of Corinth.
I believe that they were a colony of the Greeks; for though their language comes nearer the Persian, yet they retain many names, both for their towns and magistrates, that are of Greek derivation.
Instead of declaring the independence of Haiti he ruled it as a French colony with himself as the self-appointed governor and with his creed based upon equality for white, black and mulatto.
Rapidly Haiti became France's richest colony and the stories of the magnificent estates and the luxury in which wealthy planters and French noblemen lived are pitiful in contrast with what was so soon to follow.
A little colony of Christians, cast away on some Pacific island, must decide for themselves, whether they will ordain a pastor for their flock or utterly dispense with Christian teaching.
Catholics are not a feeble and helpless colony in the United States.
According to Strabo, Tarsus was a colony of Argos.
Religion took the place of fanaticism, and ever since this epoch the colony has never ceased to flourish and increase, and has become the centre of numerous settlements in the neighborhood of friendly Indians converted to the faith.
Thus the busy little colony was cast into poverty and despair.
The news of my fortunate escape from the hands of the Central Asiatic tyrants had been received by all the European colony with equal pleasure.
He was a Kandahari who, during the British occupation of 1840, had escaped the English criminal law; he had spent some time in the Afghan colony on the Caspian Sea, and afterwards had wandered about for many years in Khiva.
It has been lately built, regardless of expense, for the colonyis rich, and likes to do things handsomely.
She had set out from Rio Janeiro, in company with Count Berchthold, on an excursion to Petropolis, a German colony in the vicinity.
The Osgoods speculated curiously and futilely on Roadmaster's identity, as indeed the whole colony had done.
There are not a dozen horses in the colony that could be trusted on it at night, but mine are safe.
You, and a few others like you, French and English, are the only colony I have.
