Sentence examples for island settlement from inspiring English sources

Miss Shaw is pretty much of a godmother; settles disputes, and had the island settlement christned South Flatlands, named the streets, etc.

"He told me … that the Negroes in the Cow Island settlement on the coast of Hayti were suffering intensely from a pest of 'jiggers' from which there seemed to be no escape or protection.

However, after the founding of Cumae (a mainland Italian offshoot of the island settlement of Pithekoussai) about 750 bce and of Sicilian Naxos and Syracuse in 734 and 733, respectively, there was an explosion of colonies to all points of the compass.

All other settlements in the region are relatively small, with only four of them exceeding a population of 4,000: Crikvenica, Mali Lošinj (the largest island settlement), Senj, and Kostrena.

Samoans and other Polynesians have used outrigger canoes since establishing their first island settlements.

Other small island settlements such as Burano, Caorle, Malamocco, and Torcello traditionally depended on the local economic activities of the lagoon: fishing and fowling, salt production, and horticulture.

Venice is a cluster of 124 island settlements that began in the 7th century and gradually coalesced into the city we know today.

Guatemalan Governor Matías de Gálvez had moved quickly when the declaration of war arrived, seizing St. George's Caye, one of the principal British island settlements off the Yucatan coast.

The business venture, however, went into debt, and the island's settlement slowly decreased in population.

Lafitte organized the island's settlement into a pirate "kingdom" he called "Campeche", anointing himself the "head of government".

The French navigator Louis-Antoine de Bougainville founded the islands' first settlement, on East Falkland, in 1764, and he named the islands the Malovines.