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"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."

"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."

Davy Crockett, American Explorer

Time, Day, Independence, Liberty

3

"Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land."

"Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land."

Alvar N. C. de Vaca, Argentinian Explorer

God, Giving, Land

3

"If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised."

"If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised."

Will Adams, English Explorer

War, God, Heart, Death

3

"We took a straight course up the great snow ridge."

"We took a straight course up the great snow ridge."

Hudson Stuck, English Explorer

Exploration, Snow

3

"Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock."

"Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

Man, Men, Day, Yesterday

3

"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."

"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

Intelligence, Execution, Mathematics

3

"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself."

"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself."

Joshua Slocum, Canadian Explorer

Friendship, Hope, Adventure, Friends, Now

3

"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."

"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."

Will Adams, English Explorer

Military, Clothes

3

"The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children."

"The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children."

Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer

Family, Children, Earth, Sky, Smiles

3

"As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy."

"As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy."

Harry Johnston, British Explorer

Dying, Trouble, Winter

3

"We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others."

"We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others."

Jeff Rich, American Explorer

3

"I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm."

"I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm."

William Kidd, Scottish Explorer

Soul, Harm, Hell

3

"A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it."

"A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it."

Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

Love, People, Sea

3

"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior."

"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior."

Charles Sturt, Australian Explorer

People, Communication, Kindness, Now

3

"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."

"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

Goal, May, Obstacles

3

"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."

"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."

Hernando Cortez, Mexican Explorer

Love, Travel, Hate

3

"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."

"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian Explorer

Inspirational, People, Civilization, Inspiration, Ideas

3

"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."

"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."

Charles Sturt, Australian Explorer

Society, Consideration, Future, Land

3

"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."

"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."

Daniel Boone, American Explorer

Photography, Day, Kentucky

3

"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."

"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian Explorer

Happiness, Society, Technology, People

3

"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."

"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."

David Livingstone, Scottish Explorer

3

"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."

"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."

Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

3

"I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else."

"I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else."

Thomas L. Smith, American Explorer

Security, Company, Fire, May, Troops

3

"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."

"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."

Matthew Henson, American Explorer

Achievement, First, Man, World

3

"Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight."

"Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight."

Daniel Boone, American Explorer

Nature, Delight, Wonders

3

"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."

"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

3

"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."

"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."

Davy Crockett, American Explorer

3

"You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have."

"You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have."

Jeff Rich, American Explorer

3

"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."

"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."

Will Adams, English Explorer

Military, Years

3

"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"

"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"

Joy Adamson, Czechoslovakian Explorer

Responsibility,

3

"There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below."

"There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below."

Hudson Stuck, English Explorer

Challenge, Feet, Question

3

"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."

"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian Explorer

Travel, Airplanes, Land, Military, Nations

3

"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."

"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian Explorer

Peace, War, Conscience, Hate

3

"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that."

"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that."

William Kidd, Scottish Explorer

Death, Care, Englfriends, Will

3

"You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have."

"You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have."

Jeff Rich, American Explorer

War, President, Want

3

"Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze."

"Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze."

George Vancouver, English Explorer

Attention, Being, Pursuit

3

"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."

"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

Man, Men, People

3

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

3

"Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others."

"Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others."

Davy Crockett, American Explorer

People, Failure, Fault, Heaven

3

"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."

"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

Medicine, Woman

3

"This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it."

"This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it."

Henry Hudson, English Explorer

Adventure, Land, May, Will

3

"Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids."

"Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids."

James Theodore Bent, English Explorer

Mythology, Greece, Healing

3

"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."

"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

Fear, Intention, Name, Service

3

"At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other."

"At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other."

Will Adams, English Explorer

Time, People, Being, Boats

3

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

2

"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

Daniel Boone, American Explorer

2

"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."

"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."

Charles Sturt, Australian Explorer

Change, Country

2

"We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them."

"We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

Nature, Geese, Numbers

2

"The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe."

"The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe."

Christopher Gist, American Explorer

Home, Business, People, Land

2

"I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season."

"I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season."

William Dampier, English Explorer

Business, Day, Now, Rain

2

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