When Frenchman René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claimed the interior
of land drained by the Mississippi River in 1682, he named it after the French king.
When the Sieur de Joinville accompanied his king to Egypt on crusade in 1248,
he reported what he had been told- and believed- that cinnamon was fished up in nets at the source of the Nile out at the edge of the world.
When the Sieur de Joinville accompanied his king to Egypt on crusade in 1248,
he reported- and believed- what he had been told: that cinnamon was fished up in nets at the source of the Nile out at the edge of the world i.e.,