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Definition of Explorers
1. explorer [n] - See also: explorer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explorers
Literary usage of Explorers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America by Frederick Whymper (1868)
"First explorers of the Yukon — Nulato — Qur quarters — Water sledge — Fish traps —
Winter sketching — Frozen provisions — Coldest day — Departure of a ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"In the reports of the Survey this man is simply called A—k, in conformity with
a long-standing custom of suppressing the names of the explorers while they ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"In that day, all explorers travelled with an outfit of priests. De Soto had
twenty-four with him. ..."
4. A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races by HARRY HAMILTON. JOHNSTON (1899)
"The first explorers known to history, though not, unfortunately, mentioned by
name, were those Phoenicians despatched by the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho (son of ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Italian Explorers in New Guinea. By Professor GIGLIOLI. Much scientific work in
New Guinea has been done by Italian explorers, while a very great deal still ..."
6. Guide to the Study and Reading of American History by Edward Channing, Albert Bushnell Hart, Frederick Jackson Turner (1912)
"1851), I, 544-577; FW Hodge and TH Lewis, Spanish Explorers in the Southern ...
Early French Explorers Summary. — The French fishermen, were they on the ..."
7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"P. Bailey. New Repub 4:45-6 Ag 14 '15 See also Medical jurisprudence Expert
testimony. See Expert evidence Explorers Light reading for polar explorers. ..."
8. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"NEGRO COMPANIONS OF THE SPANISH Explorers' BY RR WRIGHT The fact seems to be well
established that Negroes were introduced into the New World with the first ..."
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