Sentence examples for such expedition from inspiring English sources

One such expedition, from Peru in 1567, commanded by Álvaro de Mendaña, discovered the Solomon Islands.

Robert Louis Stevenson read about one such expedition in a San Francisco newspaper before writing Treasure Island, and some argue that the map he drew of his "fictional" isle closely resembles numerous treasure charts of Coco.

Despite the abundance of monkeys, far too little is known of the site still to tie it to the "lost city of the monkey god" that one such expedition claimed to have discovered.

Later, they reported armed river forays from Cairo aboard timber-clad gunboats and even the capture of civilians (one such expedition to Columbus was launched ostensibly to tear down a Confederate flag flying over it).

In the scientific world, archaeologists leading the PaleoAngola Project, the first such expedition since the 1960s, announced the discovery in Angola of the fossil remains of Angolatitan adamastor, a sauropod.

"These women are connoisseurs; they are wearing the Hermes bag, and they live uptown, but they're asking their driver to take them to Kmart to shop," said Susan Lazar, a New York fashion designer, who has tagged along with friends on more than one such expedition.

Relations among some of them had frayed, amid a clash of egos endemic to such expeditions.

Lean and wiry, she looked as if she had a lifetime of such expeditions behind her.

Such expeditions brought exotica back to China; witness the giraffe once presented at the Ming court.

Tips from native hunters are crucial to such expeditions, and with new immigration, leads also surface in the United States.

According to Grenon, this is "a key feature of such expeditions and a condition for their continuation".