Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

In summer, the inhabitants lose touch with the sea altogether: " for all its nearness, the sea was out of bounds ; young limbs had no longer the run of its delights.

Only 4, 000 inhabitants remained in the city ; the rest had followed evacuation orders.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The 4th century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands.

The Antarctic region had no indigenous population when first discovered, and its present inhabitants comprise a few thousand transient scientific and other personnel working on tours of duty at the several dozen research stations maintained by various countries.

The eastern parts of Berlin have many Plattenbauten, reminders of Eastern Bloc ambitions to create complete residential areas that had fixed ratios of shops, kindergartens and schools to the number of inhabitants.

A sighted man finds himself in a country that has been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, wherein all the inhabitants are blind even as their ancestors had been.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

A " significant " part of the town's inhabitants had, by the 16th century, converted to Protestantism, and were repressed during the French Wars of Religion.

In 1765, it had 6674 inhabitants, but emigration, particularly to Mexico, slowed the town's growth in the period before the Second World War.

China has had historical trading links with the inhabitants of the island.

By the 1st century CE, the inhabitants had developed relatively stable, organized societies and spoke languages very much related to the Cambodian or Khmer of the present day.

However, Clipperton has had no permanent inhabitants since 1945.

Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios ( Spanish for " Indians ").

Before the Mongol invasion, Chinese dynasties reportedly had approximately 120 million inhabitants ; after the conquest was completed in 1279, the 1300 census reported roughly 60 million people.

It had an estimated total of 900, 000 Internet subscribers by the end of 2005, a figure that equated to 4, 739, 000 Internet users, or 11. 5 percent of the 2005 population ( 10. 9 per 100 inhabitants ).

In 2005 Colombia had 345, 000 broadband subscriber lines, or one per 100 inhabitants.

As of 2006 it had 14, 389 inhabitants.

He conducted successful military campaigns against the Hellenic inhabitants of Cilicia, which had threatened Babylonian interests.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

It also provides for the taxation of all personal property, belonging to inhabitants of the state, both tangible and intangible, and the tangible personal property of non-residents in this state.

I wouldn't have wasted time puzzling over this couple were it not for my fear that all the other inhabitants of Catatonia were equally unreal.

However, because its construction was abandoned, it has few inhabitants, and those it has may not all be ( entirely ) real.

The bell was commissioned from the London firm of Lester and Pack in 1752, and was cast with the lettering ( part of Leviticus 25: 10 ) " Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

The fourth article of the Constitution of Afghanistan states that citizens of Afghanistan include Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, Aymaq, Arab, Baluch, Pashayi, Nuristani, Qezelbash, Gujjars and Brahui, who are native inhabitants of the country, and that all citizens of Afghanistan be called Afghans.

* 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

272 ) estimate of 470, 000 as the number of the slave-population ; it is clear, however, that the number must have been out of all proportion to that of the free inhabitants.

While the Ottomans held their own in the conflict they ultimately lost with Ochakov falling in 1788 to the Russians ( all of its inhabitants being massacred.

The 2011 figures show an increase of some 64, 000 speakers compared to the 2006 figures to 714, 136, with significant increases in the Autonomous Community but a slight drop in the Northern Basque Country to 51, 100, overall amounting to an increase to 27 % of all inhabitants of Basque provinces ( 2, 648, 998 in total ).

The participation of the Bastarnae in these is likely but largely unspecified, due to Zosimus ' and other chroniclers ' tendency to lump all these tribes under the general term " Scythians "-meaning all the inhabitants of Scythia, rather than the specific people called the Scythians.

Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan.

In 1946, all AEF inhabitants were granted French citizenship and allowed to establish local assemblies.

The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.

The 1703 exercise was the first census ever to cover all inhabitants of an entire country, mentioning the name, age, and social position of each individual.

Richard Portman and all other English inhabitants of the fort.

Notwithstanding the vehement protests of the Portuguese inhabitants of St Thome, the English gained absolute control over all lands up to St Thomas Mount for a period of three years.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).

It removed the imperial governors and allowed the inhabitants, as a dependent federation, to conduct their own affairs, for which purpose representatives of all the towns were to meet every year in Arles.

" At this time there was one Odin, who was credited over all Europe with the honour, which was false, of godhead, but used more continually to sojourn at Upsala ; and in this spot, either from the sloth of the inhabitants or from its own pleasantness, he vouchsafed to dwell with somewhat especial constancy.