Question: When did the French come to the area, with the middle leg of the journey from England to the continent with the river that the Tekezé turns into?

<P0-S0> the story, illustrated by the author, is set in england during the middle ages, as the black death (bubonic plague) is sweeping across the country. <P0-S1> young robin is sent away to become a knight like his father, but his dreams are endangered when he loses the use of his legs. <P0-S2> a doctor reassures robin that the weakness in his legs is not caused by the plague and the doctor is supposed to come and help him but does not. <P0-S3> his parents are away, serving the king and queen during war, and the servants abandon the house, fearing the plague. <P0-S4> robin is saved by brother luke, a friar, who finds him and takes him to a monastery and cares for him. <SEP> <P1-S0> Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. <P1-S1> For example, from the main trading nations of Western Europe it was much easier to sail westwards after first going south of 30 N latitude and reaching the so - called ``trade winds ''; thus arriving in the Caribbean rather than going straight west to the North American mainland. <P1-S2> Returning from North America, it is easiest to follow the Gulf Stream in a northeasterly direction using the westerlies. <P1-S3> A similar triangle to this, called the volta do mar was already being used by the Portuguese, before Christopher Columbus' voyage, to sail to the Canary Islands and the Azores. <P1-S4> Columbus simply expanded the triangle outwards, and his route became the main way for Europeans to reach, and return from, the Americas. <SEP> <P2-S0> Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint - Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. <P2-S1> Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). <P2-S2> In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. <P2-S3> Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. <P2-S4> The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. <P2-S5> In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations. <SEP> <P3-S0> The Tekezé River rises in the central Ethiopian Highlands near Mount Qachen within Lasta, from where it flows west, north, then west again, forming the westernmost border of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the confluence of the Tomsa with the Tekezé at to the tripoint between the two countries and Sudan at . <P3-S1> After entering northeastern Sudan at the tripoint it joins the Atbarah River, which is a tributary of the Nile. <P3-S2> The Tekezé is perhaps the true upper course of the Atbarah, as the former follows the longer course prior to the confluence of the two rivers. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Atbarah River (; transliterated: Nahr 'Atbarah) in northeast Africa rises in northwest Ethiopia, approximately 50 km north of Lake Tana and 30 km west of Gondar. <P4-S1> It flows about 805 km (500 mi) to the Nile in north-central Sudan, joining it at the city of Atbarah (). <P4-S2> The river's tributary, the Tekezé (Setit) River, is perhaps the true upper course of the Atbarah, as the Tekezé follows the longer course prior to the confluence of the two rivers (at 14° 10' N, 36° E) in northeastern Sudan. <P4-S3> The Atbarah is the last tributary of the Nile before it reaches the Mediterranean. <SEP> <P5-S0> the pony express museum is a transport museum in saint joseph, missouri, documenting the history of the pony express, the first fast mail line across the north american continent from the missouri river to the pacific coast. <P5-S1> the museum is housed in a surviving portion of the pike's peak stables, from which westward-bound pony express riders set out on their journey.