Builders of Canada from Cartier to LaurierJohn C. Winston Company, 1903 - 578 psl. |
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... determination of the jealous Spaniards to keep out foreigners on pain of death , he managed to visit Panama and the principal islands , and to penetrate as far as the city of Mexico . He brought back with him a journal of his travels ...
... determination of the jealous Spaniards to keep out foreigners on pain of death , he managed to visit Panama and the principal islands , and to penetrate as far as the city of Mexico . He brought back with him a journal of his travels ...
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... determination ; and the attempt had to be given up . His Indian assistants to console him , drew on the deck of his ship a rude map of the upper portion of the great river , with the rapids and islands , and the chain of sea - like ...
... determination ; and the attempt had to be given up . His Indian assistants to console him , drew on the deck of his ship a rude map of the upper portion of the great river , with the rapids and islands , and the chain of sea - like ...
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... determined to plant their colony , close to what is now the boundary between Canada and the United States . It was a long , narrow island , some ten acres in extent - its grassy covering springing from a barren and sandy soil , with a ...
... determined to plant their colony , close to what is now the boundary between Canada and the United States . It was a long , narrow island , some ten acres in extent - its grassy covering springing from a barren and sandy soil , with a ...
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... determination to return to the place which he claimed as his own . Though coming to an untimely end , this colony had at least left memories of kindness and good - will with the Indians , who bitterly lamented the departure of their ...
... determination to return to the place which he claimed as his own . Though coming to an untimely end , this colony had at least left memories of kindness and good - will with the Indians , who bitterly lamented the departure of their ...
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... determined to go on without it . Early in the following spring Champlain and Pontgravé sailed again for New France . As usual , they found greedy fur - traders busy at Tadousac and on the Saguenay , exhausting the supplies so much ...
... determined to go on without it . Early in the following spring Champlain and Pontgravé sailed again for New France . As usual , they found greedy fur - traders busy at Tadousac and on the Saguenay , exhausting the supplies so much ...
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34 psl. - ... sketches of them all, after his fashion, and then, landing at Vera Cruz, journeyed inland to the city of Mexico. On his return he made his way to Panama. Here, more than two centuries and a half ago, his bold and active mind conceived the plan of a ship-canal across the isthmus, "by which," he says, "the voyage to the South Sea would be shortened by more than fifteen hundred leagues.