Not surprisingly, the Native Americans didn't like the white settlements on their land, and so several wars and battles followed.

毫不奇怪， 美洲原住民不喜欢他们土地上的白人定居点，因此发生了几场战争和战斗。

Like Michigan and Wisconsin, it had been explored early by the French scouts, and the first white settlement was the little French village of Mendota.

与密歇根州和威斯康星州一样， 它很早就被法国侦察兵探索过，第一个白人定居点是门多塔的法国小村庄。

He believed that Native Americans were savages and had no rights to their land, and began proceedings to remove the Cherokee from the southern states to clear the way for white settlement.

他认为美洲原住民是野蛮人，对他们的土地没有权利，并开始着手将切诺基人赶出南部各州，为白人定居扫清道路。

No boat had left the harbor in the meantime-there was not a railroad within hundreds of miles-there was no other white settlement that the two could reach under several days of arduous marching accompanied by a well-equipped safari.

在此期间，没有船只离开港口——方圆数百英里内没有铁路——两人经过几天艰苦的行军，加上装备精良的狩猎，没有其他白人定居点可以到达。