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The first European colonists in North America depended a great deal on the native population to teach them how to survive in the harsh environment.
The island of Bermuda was first settled in 1609 by shipwrecked English colonists headed for Virginia.
We have to thank these little creatures for the long, slender seeds, armed with short bristles along the ribs, that they may snatch rides on our garments, together with the beggar-ticks, burdock, cleavers, and other vagabond colonists in search of unoccupied ground.
Our Indians, who call it "white man's plant," associate it with the Jamestown settlement - a plausible connection, for Raleigh's colonists would have been likely to carry with them to the New World the seeds of an herb yielding an alkaloid more esteemed in the England of their day than the alkaloid of opium known as morphine.
Nowhere more than in the naming of wild flowers can we trace the homesickness of the early English colonists in America.
When some monks in reading Lucian came across the passage where Jove, speaking of Ganymede to Mercury, says, "Take him hence, and when he has tasted immortality let him return to us," their literal minds inferred that this plant must have been what Ganymede tasted, hence they named it athanasia! So great credence having been given to its medicinal powers in Europe, it is not strange the colonists felt they could not live in the New World without tansy.
Greek colonists also settled on the coast.
It is a shrub about three feet high, so covered with orange-coloured blossoms that the colonists call it the Fire-tree.
The blood horses of them colonists might fling up the dust over me as I was walking; what do I say?
Shall colonists have their horses (and blood 'uns, if you please, good Lord!
Nor were sports wanting, such as the colonists had witnessed, and shared in, long ago, at the country fairs and on the village-greens of England; and which it was thought well to keep alive on this new soil, for the sake of the courage and manliness that were essential in them.
This young man, besides having a great deal to say for himself about Africa and a project of his for teaching the coffee colonists to teach the natives to turn piano-forte legs and establish an export trade, delighted in drawing Mrs.
Serbs exported colonists to Kosovo and expelled Albanians.
In 1776, American colonists took up arms against a government far less oppressive than the one that now spends 40 percent of our incomes.
We [the American colonists fighting in the War of Independence] have shed our blood in the glorious cause in which we are engaged, we are ready to shed the last drop in its defense.
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