The same year of this last enterprise, Henry fitted out a fleet under the command of John Cabot, a Venetian sailor doing business in England, and his son Sebastian, for exploration in the western seas.
But into those parts of the new lands opened up by Spanish explorationand conquest there began to pour at once a tremendous stream of Spanish adventurers and colonists, in search of fortune and fame.
They profited by thirty years more of constant historical explorationand realising of former days.
Most of them are out of print now, and can only be had at the libraries; but they are books that will repay reading, and the same thing can be said of a great number of volumes dealing with the exploration of the western country.
This exploration would be desirable, in order to remove the doubts of many persons in regard to the existence of this sea on the north, where it is maintained that the English have gone in these latter years to find a way to China.
They had been occupied in this explorationabout three weeks, Lescarbot says a month, but this is an overstatement.
There is no evidence, and no probability, that this river had been navigated by Europeans anterior to this exploration of Champlain.
The terminus of this exploration of the Penobscot was near the present site of the city of Bangor.
Unknown Mexico A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan By Carl Lumholtz, M.
A great many Americans have been to Alt Heidelberg, but not so many have continued their exploration up the Neckarthal.
The club has always intended to make more careful explorationof Dutch Street, the little alley that runs off Fulton Street on the south side, not far from Broadway.
These English have stopped all exploration until they get their mandate.
After that they will take good care that only English societies have the exploration privilege.
In 1493, as European exploration of the world moved into high gear, the Pope published a Bull dividing the world yet to be explored into two parts.
An exploration of the mound has proved beyond reasonable doubt that it was raised to cover the ashes of Ottar Vendel-crow, the Ohthere of Beowulf[708].
An exploration of Ottar's mound showed a striking similarity with the Uppsala mounds.
Engelhardt's work at Nydam was interrupted by the war of 1864: the finds had to be ceded to Germany, and the exploration was continued by German scholars.
Exploration of the Yellowstone and the Country drained by that River.
Exploration of Parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, in 1882.
He early displayed a taste for exploration and natural history, and such reading as his limited education permitted was devoted to books treating of these subjects.
They had just finished the first complete tour ofexploration ever made of that region.
Every expedition that could possibly extend the field of its labors in that direction did so, and there was scarcely a summer during the next twenty years that the Park was not the scene of some official exploration or visit.
Unquestionably Bridger's chief claim to remembrance by posterity rests upon the extraordinary part he bore in the exploration of the West.
Western exploration entirely ceased until 1865, and was not vigorously resumed for some years thereafter.
Raynolds, in the exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers.
This condition, rather than impassable mountains or unmelted snows, was the chief obstacle to a thorough exploration of the Upper Yellowstone.
The traffic in peltries it was that first induced extensive exploration of the west.
Finally the whole energy of the government in the field of exploration was directed away from this region.
I doubt if exploration anywhere revealed a nobler character than this Baptist minister whose career has been so adequately presented by Sir Harry Johnston, and who ranks with Stanley and Livingstone as one of the foremost of African explorers.
Prior to Stanley's memorable journey of exploration across Equatorial Africa which he described in "Through the Dark Continent," what is now the Congo was a blank spot on the map.
He is a pioneer in exploration in the French Congo and Liberia and went almost straight from the battlefields of France, where he served with distinction in the World War, out to his post in the Congo.
Behind its own brief chronicles we note the outline of the story, full of the good work of strong men, of the exploration and civic conquest of the wide country between the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast.
Pike, who in January, 1807, while conducting an exploration under military orders, erected a stockade fort in Spanish territory.
But for this auspicious event and the stimulating effect on Spanish exploration it afterwards provoked, the great domain from San Diego to the Straits of Juan de Fuca would not to-day be rendering tribute to the Government at Washington.
The motive spirit actuating the early travellers in these then Mexican wastes was that of exploration and discovery.
If the uterus and ovaries are perfect, all the feminine characteristics are manifest, and a vaginal exploration discloses the nature of the difficulty.
In reconnoitering the course of explorationover a vast continent, it is impossible to relate the events of each year in the exact order in which they occurred.
With their aid he prepared to follow the course of exploration towards Peru; and whilst vessels were being constructed for river navigation, he sent Irala forward with an expedition by land.
The author repudiates, by implication, the idea that it is possible to lay down universal or eternal laws, and limits himself to the exploration of the phenomena appearing in a certain stage of historical development.
Powell, who made the first exploration of the Grand Canyon the following year, he made the summit.
The following year Coronado, at his own expense, made the most romantic exploration in human history.
What more enjoyable day's outing, for instance, than the exploration of the splendid pile of pentagonal basaltic columns suspended half-way in the rim at one point of picturesque beauty?
But the southern entrance and Paradise Park will remain for many years the principal centre of exploration and pleasuring.
For those acquainted with the story of Spanish explorationthis national monument will have unique interest.
Days and weeks of rare pleasure may be had in the exploration of these amazing walls, a pleasure greatly to be enhanced by discovering and studying the many plain evidences of Mazama's slow upbuilding and sudden extinction.
Because of Therkaler and his ridiculous jealousy, Barrent's application for the Space Exploration Corps had been turned down.
Exploration into his own mind was as dangerous as a journey to--what?
It is essentially a method for the exploration of the unconscious associations, into which no question of the conscious self enters.
Psychiatry, which engages in the exploration of the mind, stands ever at the door seeking in vain to weigh and measure as in the other departments of science.
The Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, promised to order an exploration of the Colorado River as soon as he could get an appropriation, and to send troops to the new Territory as soon as they could be spared.
At the time of our first exploration (1854) there was virtually no civilized population in the recently acquired territory.
We were now encamped in view of the scene of our future operations, and the exploration and settlement of a territory of considerably over a hundred thousand square miles was before us, and the destiny of a new State was in embryo.
In the autumn of 1856 we had made the headquarters for the company at Tubac comfortable, laid in a store of provisions for the winter, and were ready to begin the exploration of the country for mines.
We had an audience with the commanding officer of the Pacific, and procured a recommendation to the Secretary of War for an exploration of the Colorado River.
These vaults were the key to a world of darkness, terrors, mysteries: an immense abyss dug beneath our feet, closed by iron gates, whose exploration was as perilous as the descent into hell of AEneas or Dante.
Later he undertook a botanic and zoologic exploration to Africa which lasted for four years.
The possible stimulus to dangerous self-exploration in some unsuspecting youngster has always outweighed for you the advantages of a too direct explanation.
The exploration of a ship which is to be one's resting-place for three weeks is always a matter of some interest.
In the year 1844 when Fremont made his first exploration across the vast prairies, there was not a single line of railway west of the Alleghanies.
Then, too, as far back as the sixteenth century, when the earliest exploration of that region was made, the desert-dwelling tribes seem to have been thoroughly established in the territory once occupied by the gulf.
The burro has been one of the most important factors in desert exploration and development.
