Sentence examples for exploring expedition from inspiring English sources
Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.
Ayolas was lost on an exploring expedition, but Irala founded Asunción (now in Paraguay) among the Guaraní, a largely settled agricultural people.
In this post he recommended the establishment of a Virginia company to carry on trade with the Indians, urged the construction of forts along the frontier, and personally organized and conducted in 1716 an exploring expedition into the Shenandoah Valley.
His appointment to a polar scientific and exploring expedition, however, far from freeing him from the shackles of naval convention, brought him into an arena in which those conventions had a tragically inescapable force.
The government's primary motive for organizing an exploring expedition was to provide accurate charts for the nation's whaling industry, which in the 1820's and 30's was the largest in the world.
Nature of the geological formations occupying the portion of Oregon and North California included in a geographical survey under the direction of Captain Fremont; A report of the exploring expedition to Oregon and North California in the years 18431844.
As our readers know it has been the field of a number of small exploring expeditions, the somewhat fragmentary results of which have only served to whet our appetite for more information.
Van Diemen initiated the exploring expeditions of Abel Tasman and Frans Visscher in 1642 and 1644 on which they discovered Tasmania (originally Van Diemen's Land), New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and the northern coast of Australia.
Fergus Fleming's "Barrow's Boys" (2000), an entertaining romp through the 20-plus British Admiralty exploring expeditions initiated by Sir John Barrow between 1816 and 1845, has now been followed by "Ninety Degrees North," the story of the quest for the North Pole between the 1850's and 1926.
Whereas most European exploring expeditions comprised two modest-sized ships, the American squadron consisted of six sailing vessels and 346 men, including a team of nine scientists and artists, making it one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of Western exploration".
He also gathered a substantial amount of linguistic data in Polynesia, which appears in his Ethnology and Philology: United States Exploring Expeditions (1846).
