Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — The Azore Islands. [ARTICLE]

The Azore Islands.

The Azores received thoir name from ozor, a hawk, large flocks of whioh birds were seen by the early disooverors. They are supposed to have been colonized by the Carthaginians, as large quantities of Carthaginian coins havo been found on them. If so, however, tho oolony had disappeared by the twelth century, as the Arab* seem to havo known of them about that time, and they wero then not populated. This group was first definitely known to the Europeans In 1861, as they are marked on u map of that time. It has been supposed that the Genoese knew of them. Their rediscovery dates from 1432, when tho Fleming Vanderburg visited them. In 1482 again wo are told that Prince Henry of Portugal, who, it is suspeoted, had in his pos.

session a map on wbioh they were marked, ■cut out Gonzalo Velho Cabral, who discovered the island of Santa Maria, and in 1444 took possession of St. Michaels. They were all known by 14f)7, and were colonized by Portugal, to whloh oountry they have ever since belonged.—[Bbston Cultivator.