1.   Creole has come to describe the refined cuisine that developed in New Orleans, influenced by French and Spanish settlers, he said.

2.   Early Spanish settlers reported seeing the birds feasting on whale carcasses washed ashore in Monterey.

3.   Early Spanish settlers called the fish grunion, which means grunter.

4.   Legend had, in fact, been part of the Arizona scene long before the first Spanish settlers stumbled through in search of gold.

5.   Next came Spanish settlers and fur traders, who trapped beaver along the Gila River.

6.   Numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the clannish descendants of Spanish settlers seldom socialize with recent Mexican immigrants.

7.   That was great for Spanish settlers, but not necessarily for Cubans.

8.   The colonial town square was established by Spanish settlers, and the many colonial mansions, with arches covered with bougainvillea, give Tequisquiapan a village charm.

9.   Their potential was evident to early Spanish settlers.

10.   The only person spared from the group was Alonso de Olmos, a young boy and non-Jesuit whose father was a Spanish settler in Florida.