Show NEW AMONG NATIONS ONS facts abigt afi cp azar afano m to por dagil anal hii portugal has recognized the american principle of local self belf gor ment in granting autonomy to toe the azores and that interesting I 1 little I 1 community of rather less than three hundred thousand people will soon legislating ie g for itself doubtless at angra aggra the althe almost unIt unknown capital of the group thi the independent blue flag with the white ehlt hawk and the nine stars displayed by the 1 islanders 1 of S san an amiuel Miguel when the good news came from lisbon contains a sort of brief history of the group it tells there are nine islands cowf thick in the blue bine mid ocein ocean and that the emblematic hawk reminds tte wo world ald that the mhd name acor portuguese for hawk was conferred on ther islands because of the great number of those birds found there by the navigator sent cent out from portugal port ual u al to take possession of the group one story of that quest is that a dutch merchant being driven out of his course chanced chan biad upon the wands islands and reported vani them when he touched at af lisbon lA another latisher is that dom henry of portugal having a an n old map upon which h the islands were laid down dispatched gonzalo velho cabral to search for them at atan any y rate rale the navigator reached the ifie islands Wand sin in 1432 the very date ascribed to vand vander ir bergs adventure and twelve years later took possession of san miguel mignel all the nine islands had fiad been beeh rediscovered ty by 1457 and colonization n soon began |