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Unlike the other colonists, who eventually melted into the culture, the Cajuns kept to themselves in the bayou, retaining their 17th-century language and customs.
Occupation of Madeira began in the early 1420s as a decidedly minimalist project: colonists arrived with only as much as they could carry from mainland Portugal.
The city of some 55,000 as it exists today derives much more from the town built by Anglos who have been attracted here since the mid nineteenth century than from the Spanish-Mexican colonists and their descendants who populated the tiny frontier capital for over two centuries previously.
Serbs exported colonists to Kosovo and expelled Albanians.
One has to assume that the words which had a Sydney-based currency in English were known to most colonists because they had been encountered either in Sydney or in accounts of Sydney.