All are classed by the Chinese settlers after their usual fashion in three social divisions:-- 1.
The taxes imposed upon the primitive Malay settlers by the Negritoes were levied in kind, and, when payment was refused, they swooped down in a posse, and carried off the head of the defaulter.
With the Arab traders and settlerscame the Koran, and the Achinese people have been not over-zealous followers of the Prophet since the close of the twelfth century.
Then the rich arable tracts thus depleted were gradually occupied by agricultural settlers from the south, with the result that the Manchu race has nearly disappeared.
Indeed, I had seen there, in my youth, many a time, crowds of white settlers inferior to these in sedateness and self-possession.
Aside from settlers and a railway, the chief needs of the country are a good waggon-road to Edmonton and mail facilities, which were almost non-existent when we were there, but which have recently been to some extent supplied.
The first thing they will do is to give half-breed settlers living on land 160 acres, if there is room to do so; but if several are settled close together, the land will be divided between them as fairly as possible.
A thriving trade was done at the Detroit in the 18th century in Pawnees, or Panis, as they were called, captured by Indian raiders on the western prairies and sold to the white settlers along the river.
The region is well suited to both industries, and will undoubtedly attract white settlers in due time.
The early settlers would indeed have been astonished if they could look round and see what they have brought the quiet place to in these later days.
The newsettlers were, in civilisation and intelligence, far superior to the native population, and sometimes abused their superiority.
Districts, which had recently been as wild as those where the first white settlers of Connecticut were contending with the red men, were in a few years transformed into the likeness of Kent and Norfolk.
But he was quickly recalled to Cyrene by the news of the rising of the Marmaridas, the race of Libyan herdsmen that had been driven back from the coast by the Greek settlers who founded Cyrene.
Settlers were invited by the distribution of large tracts of land in the neighborhood, with a stipulated number of Indian vassals to each.
The new settlers were to be exempted from some of the most onerous, but customary taxes, as the alcabala, or to be subject to them only in a mitigated form.
They displayed the dexterity so necessary to settlers in a new country, where every man must become in some degree his own artisan.
Strictly, thesettlers (cleruchs) were not colonists, inasmuch as they retained their status as citizens of Athens (e.
Though not in existence before the arrival of the Ionians in Asia, its original founders were largely settlers from Phlius and Cleonae.
The establishment of a few settlers formed a nucleus, and, as successive pilgrimages to Mecca were annually undertaken from Darfur, the colony rapidly increased by the settlement of the returned pilgrims.
They made quick movements, falling suddenly upon a settlement, with their Indian allies, making all the havoc possible, and before the settlers could gather to resist them, would be far on their way to Crown Point or Canada.
The settlers had suffered so much from the enemy that they were eager to take their revenge.
In all these disasters Nikias alone escaped censure: while he achieved several military successes, such as the capture of Kythera, an island conveniently situated off the coast of Laconia, and inhabited by settlers from that country.
The first settlers came from the Hunsrück section.
The firstsettlers were German emigrants originally bound not for Brazil but for Sydney, Australia.
The Germanic settlers from Europe who had come to Brazil found themselves located in surroundings radically different from the ones to which they had been accustomed in the land of their nativity.
Beginning with the early years of that century, however, there was a steady current of new settlersfrom the German-speaking sections of Europe into the southern part of the country.
The firstsettlers were mainly natives of Pomerania and Mecklenburg.
The first reference to German settlers in Brazil we have from the pen of Hans Stade of Homberg in Hessen.
Its first settlers came mainly from the Rhine district.
The first settlerswere Swiss, but since Germans immediately followed them and formed the larger part of the subsequent influx, Nova Friburgo is properly classed as a German colony.
The first settlers were composed chiefly of Rhenish Prussians.
Beginning with that century there was a steady stream of non-Portuguese settlers into the country, and of these the Germans formed an important part.
A suggestion as to the origin of the first settlers is offered by the names of the different districts into which the colony was first divided; viz.
Footnote 34: A particularly strong current of German settlers has in recent years been moving into Ijuhy, mostly by indirect immigration.
But with the assured product of their labor such a commodity as gold, with its universality of demand and stability of value, the sturdy settlers in Last Chance Gulch had always the most powerful of incentives to restless energy.
A constant war was waged upon these creatures by the settlers for two reasons, one of which was that they were highly valued as an article of food.
Another reason which prompted the settlers to prey upon the huge turtles was the fact that their ducks suffered from the savage creatures.
In some places it may be that the tracts of range adjacent to the homesteads of actual settlers should be allotted to them severally or in common for the summer grazing of their stock.
This method of action often resulted in badly chosen boundaries and consequent injustice to settlers and others.
The distribution of the water, the division of the streams among irrigators, should be left to the settlers themselves in conformity with State laws and without interference with those laws or with vested fights.
The pioneer settlers on the arid public domain chose their homes along streams from which they could themselves divert the water to reclaim their holdings.
The object of the Government is to dispose of the land to settlers who will build homes upon it.
On visiting the house, the settlers found that the water had penetrated in all directions, and that the wind had torn away part of the verandah, as well as the roof, and blown down their safe.
The hardy settlers of this frontier, separated though they were by the slave State of Missouri from free soil and free influences, would, it now seemed, pretty certainly favor freedom.
He recommended a preemption law for the benefit of actual settlers on public lands, and a classification of lands under different rates, to encourage the settlement of the poorer lands near the older settlements.
It was assumed with the usual insufferable affectation of omniscience that these hardy Western settlers were merely children who did not know what was best for them.
The war between Mexico and the American settlers in her revolted northeast province began in 1835.
In Upper Canada its strength was among settlers who had come since the war closed in 1815.
Dickinson's proposal meant that the first settlers of each Territory should determine it to freedom or to slavery; it meant that in admitting new States the nation ought to be indifferent to their laws on slavery.
In place of bank-notes, which symbolized the expectations and hopes of the owners of new towns and improvements, the United States after July, 1836, required from all but actual settlers gold and silver for lands.
The new cities and towns and farms and the means of reaching them would be mere paper assets until an army of settlers was ready to enter in and make them sources of actual physical wealth.
He still thought that free settlers would defeat the intention of the Kansas-Nebraska act, and bring in, as they afterwards did, a free though bleeding Kansas.
If the settlers of Kansas, which lay wholly on the free side of that compromise line, desired slavery, they were to have it.
Nor were the English settlers ignorant of his promise.
The Norse settlers in Caithness saw terrific visions of Valhalla "the day after the battle.
The first settlers in the plain of Babylonia must soon have discovered that the higher they could be above the surface of the ground the better it was for them.
Semitic settlers from Southern Arabia and Canaan occupied it, and it was known to them as Uru, "the city" par excellence.
In 1881 Sir William Whiteway, then Premier of the colony, paid a visit to England, and his powerful advocacy procured recognition for the title of the settlers to their lands, and brought them within the pale of the Queen's law.
Very soon after their establishment the French settlers repudiated England's sovereignty over the south parts of Newfoundland, and from time to time strengthened their colony by bringing over bands of French immigrants.
As recently as forty years ago their title was still unrecognized, and the presence of thousands of settlers with indeterminate claims had become a dangerous grievance.
The Board of Trade, which inherited the duties and the incompetence of the Committee, proved more complaisant, and was indeed prepared to tolerate permanent settlers to the number of one thousand.
A struggle was imminent, if only they had known it, when the presence of a few thousand resolute settlers in Newfoundland would be of high moment to the interests of England.
Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt": there was little tolerance in the England of the eighteenth century, and even the New England settlers had shamed their faith by outrages on the Quakers.
The first Governor under this régime was Sir David Kirke, who established himself at Ferryland (1638) with a number of settlers variously estimated at from thirty to one hundred persons.
But a little more than two centuries have elapsed, since the first settlers planted themselves at Jamestown, in Virginia, and the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock.
The character of the early settlers of New England deserves a distinct notice, beyond that which has incidentally appeared in narrating the history of their achievements.
Their character was ferocious, and the settlers suffered severely from their wars, murders, and depredations.
From this time, New Amsterdam and the whole conquered province received the name of New York, the original settlers choosing, for the most part, to remain, and being permitted to adopt many of their own forms of government.
Thousands of peaceable and industrious settlers were expelled the island, on suspicion of their being concerned in the murder of some Englishmen, whose scalps were discovered in the French governor's house.
In 1629, some of the settlers about the Massachusetts bay, purchased a tract of country of the Indians, with a view to unite with the settlement at Piscataqua.
The settlers on Albemarle sound were allowed, on certain conditions, to retain their lands.
Like the settlers of the other New England colonies, those of New Hampshire were desirous of enjoying the ministrations and ordinances of the Gospel, and were able to obtain excellent ministers.
The British settlers at length brought this rich, but uncultivated, track into entire subjection by the power of industry.
The frontiers continued to be ravaged, and the comfort and progress of the settlers were seriously interrupted, for a time, beyond the general pacification.
Homestead entries (that is, by settlers taking claims under homestead acts of which I shall speak later).
Paroquets that in the woods repeated the words learned of settlers are not of the fauna known to reputable Ohio naturalists, nor have two-headed snakes been found except in the vision of those who see double in their intoxication.
The roar of cannon and the sharp rattle of musketry proclaimed to the settlers at Annerley, on the 18th of March, that the colonial forces to the westward were engaged with the Kafir warriors.
At first the settlers in the neighbourhood turned away their heads when the young teacher and his dusky wife passed them by; but Amayeka was so humble, so industrious, so neat, what could be said against her?
The firing from the wagons ceased; in the rear all was comparatively still, for the enemy was resting on his arms, and the settlers were carrying in their wounded.
In their imagination, the settlers were paralysed--they were within seven hundred yards of the wagons.
Mrs Daveney and Marion stood by the bedside of the unfortunate Eleanor, who, pale and motionless as marble, lay insensible to the yells of the savages on the hills, or the voices of the poor settlers under the windows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "settlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
