1.   ...in the old days before the European settlers arrived in the country.

2.   Another section is devoted to the plants used by the Khoi people, who inhabited South Africa long before white settlers arrived.

3.   As more European settlers arrived, vineyards began to crop up throughout the county.

4.   Ata Jaber, the homeowner, said he fled with his family when the settlers arrived.

5.   Before European settlers arrived, some scientists believe, the central role at the bottom of the food chain was filled primarily by phytoplankton, microscopic plants.

6.   Dog ticks, which occasionally carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, were common in the Northeast when the first settlers arrived and are still around.

7.   He came to believe that human settlers had arrived with the ocean currents from the west, just as much of the vegetation and animal life had done.

8.   Historians and anthropologists note a relationship in the decline of the population of Native Americans and the time the Jamestown settlers arrived.

9.   Natives from the Great Plains to Labrador had them long in use when European settlers first arrived, as did the settlers themselves.

10.   Once European settlers arrived, the land was turned to grazing, farming or development.