Such warnings seem to be taking effect now, for the Commonwealth Government is moving at last to colonise the Northern Territory, and to build a railway which will bring it into touch with the more populous portions of the Continent.
In 1825 a Company was formed in London to colonise New Zealand, and it sent away a band of pioneers in the ship Rosanna.
For want of territory to colonise under her own flag, Japan has lost many subjects to alien flags.
But again the idea of the Pacific expedition was not to colonise but to strike a blow at a rival European Power.
The prospectus of the Company to colonise New Zealand stated: "The aim of this Company is not confined to mere emigration, but is directed to colonisation in its ancient and systematic form.
After this, shipload followed shipload from Iceland to colonise Vinland.
So glowing was his description that soon a party of men and women, with household goods and cattle, started forth in twenty-five ships to colonise the new land.
She now proposed to Van der Haagen that he should colonise and govern these islands for her, which he did for seven years.
Jobst van Heurter, some time after he had obtained the grant or sub-lease of Fayal, appears also to have become Captain Donatory of Pico, with a commission to colonise this island.
His brother Humphrey makes a second attempt to colonise Newfoundland, and perishes as heroically as he had lived.
In this way Norfolk Island being found devoid of inhabitants by Captain Cook, his discovery of the sea-girt isle not only entitled Britain to colonise it, but automatically added it to the possessions of the Empire.
Such prior right to colonise is, however, strictly limited by the important consideration that colonisation can only take place with the free will and consent of the savage or semi-civilised inhabitants of the newly discovered country.
Thus far Britain would seem prima facie to have kept alive her right to colonise in these Islands as against any other nation, except, perhaps, in the important particular that she had not systematically occupied the land.
It must be sufficiently plain from the foregoing facts that the attempts to colonise French Guiana with convicts have ended in more or less disheartening failure.
But it is no longer sanguine of success, and the attempt to colonise is continued with other than native-born Frenchmen.
Sirius, was sent to colonise Norfolk Island, a place highly commended by Captain Cook for its genial climate and fertile soil.
For three years every attempt to colonisethe country had ended in disaster.
In September 1598, an unexpected ally, the Duke of Finland, urged Raleigh to undertake once more his attempt to colonise Guiana, and offered twelve ships as his own contingent.
Out of these fusions arose the Puget Sound Company, created to utilise, cultivate, and colonise the Pacific territories, over which licenses to trade had been given to the Hudson's Bay Company.
That help once offered, by guarantee or by grant, private enterprise would flock to the undertaking, and people would go to colonise on the broad tracts laid open to their industry.
She could not colonise the whole of it, and the small portion that she was using was a mere convict settlement.
Bonaparte during the Consulate contemplated making definite attempts to colonise Madagascar, and, early in 1801, called for a report from his first colonial minister, Forfait.
It had been often proposed to extirpate them and to colonisethe country.
The 'islands' referred to seem to be the peninsula of Ards, subsequent attempts to colonise which did not meet with much success.
The horrors of the present conflict will be as nothing compared with a struggle between two highly-organised State socialisms, each of which knows that it must either colonise the territory of the other or starve.
It has been found to be impossible for white men to colonise India, Burma, tropical America, and West Africa.
There was an outcry raised at the French taking possession of Taheite, as if any attempt on their part to colonise was an infringement on our right as Englishmen of universal colonisation.
Since that time no further attempt to colonise this island has been made, nor, indeed, is it likely that there will be, as Labuan is much more advantageously situated in every respect.
It certainly does appear strange, but it is no less true, that no nation can colonise like the English, and I have often made that remark in my wanderings and visitings of the various parts of the globe.
As if Munster had not troubles enough, an attempt was made at this time to revive Sir Peter Carew's shadowy claim to a principality there, and some of the projectors renewed their offers to colonise parts of the province.
It seems highly probable that the common eel is a deep-water marine fish which has learned to colonise the freshwaters.
The flounder is quite comfortable far up the rivers, but it has to go to the shore-waters to spawn, and there is no doubt that the flounder is a marine fish which has recently learned to colonise the fresh waters.
In spite of all these drawbacks, the Russian government still persists in its endeavours to colonise the Kalmucks, and strives with all its might to introduce among them its system of uniformity.
Unavailing attempts have been subsequently made to colonise them.
When they, the Spaniards, first entered into possession they at once set to work to colonise and clear.
I had had great hopes of the enterprise, but the experiences of last winter have taught me that nothing is to be gained by our struggles to colonise the barren North.
He found that Cartier had been before him by a few days, and had urged the necessity of recalling Roberval, and the hopelessness of any attempts to colonise the New World.
The attempts which had been made to colonise the northern and eastern parts of New England had proved almost entirely unsuccessful.
Southward from this the Spaniards claimed the land and called it Florida; but they made no effort to colonise the wilderness which stretched between Florida and the borders of South Carolina.
In 1629 King Charles I granted all this region to Sir Robert Heath, but he made no attempt to colonise it.
The native population of Manchuria having been drafted off to garrison and colonise the conquered [Page 57] country, their deserted districts were thrown open to Chinese settlers.
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