Our West Indian Neighbors: The Islands of the Caribbean Sea, " America's Mediterranean": Their Picturesque Features, Fascinating History, and Attractions for the Traveler, Nature-lover, Settler and Pleasure-seekerJ. Pott & Company, 1907 - 433 pages |
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aboriginal American attractive Bahamas Barbados beautiful beneath birds British buccaneers Camagüey capital Caribbean Sea Caribbees Caribs cathedral century climate colony Columbus crater Cuba Cuban Curaçao descendants Dominica Dutch English eruption fact feet forest French fruits garden governor Grenada Guadeloupe Haiti Haitians harbor Havana hills hundred hurricane inhabitants island Isle Jamaica Kingston Kitts land lived Martinique miles morning Morro mountain natives natural nearly negro north coast numerous once palms Pelée perhaps picturesque pirates Poncé Port Port au Prince possession Puerto Plata Puerto Rico region residence River Royal Saba sailed Saint Lucia Saint Pierre Saint Vincent San Juan Santiago Santo Domingo scenery settlement ship shore soil Soufrière Spain Spaniards Spanish steamers streams sugar thousand tion to-day town trees Trinidad tropical United valleys vast vegetation volcano voyage wall West Indian West Indies windward
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Page 177 - ... express his resolutions to wait still patiently upon the providence of God under these disappointments, that when he should look on one side he might see that odd thing before him. At last he saw it; seeing it, he cried out with some agony: "Why? What is this? Whence comes this?" And then, with changed countenances, they told him how and where they got it.
Page 391 - At this point, called Tierra de Brea or Piche, there is that abundance of stone pitch that all the ships of the world may be therewith laden from thence; and we made trial of it in trimming our ships to be most excellent good, and melteth not with the sun as the pitch of Norway, and therefore for ships trading the south parts very profitable.
Page 241 - ... our side to secure the future welfare of our beloved and faithful subjects, and that a mighty impulse, both moral and material, will be given to the happy development of the islands under the new sovereignty.
Page 356 - ... upper solitudes, and altogether unknown to the other parts of the island : hence principally called, or supposed to be, invisible; though it certainly has been seen, and is a species of the merle.
Page 176 - Now, with a small company of other men he sailed from thence to Hispaniola, where by the policy of his address he fished out of a very old Spaniard...
Page 177 - ... world where he had found his feather ; the report of which great guns exceedingly astonished the whole company ; and at once turned their despondencies for their ill success into assurances that they had now lit upon the true spot of ground which they had been looking for...
Page 177 - ... of it; now, most happily, they first fell upon that room in the wreck where the bullion had been stored up; and they so prospered in this new fishery that in a little while they had without the loss of any man's life brought up thirtytwo tuns of silver; for it was now come to measuring of silver by tuns.
Page 198 - ... we still spent the early mornings in firing the outmost houses ; but they being built very magnificently of stone, with high lofts, gave us no small travail to ruin them.
Page 110 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Page 331 - All furnished well with small arms and cannons round about ; And a thousand men in Aves made laws so fair and free To choose their valiant captains and obey them loyally.