Down the Islands: A Voyage to the CaribbeesC. Scribner's Sons, 1887 - 301 ページ |
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acres Aleck American anchor Anguilla Antigua arrival Barbadians Barbados Barracouta Basseterre beauty boats Bridgetown British British Guiana called cane-pieces Caribbean Islands Caribbean Sea Caribbees Caribs Carlisle Bay Christopher cliffs coast colony colored Columbus cooly creoles cultivation darkies deck delightful Demerara Dominica east England English feet fleet flowers forests France French fruit Grenada Guadeloupe Gulf of Paria harbor of St Hayti height hills Hindu houses hundred inhabitants Kitt's labor land leeward Lucia Martinique massa miles morning mountains native negroes Nevis night ocean passed picturesque Pierre plantations planters Port of Spain possession promontory race reason rock sailed Salmagundian seen ship shore side sight steamer streets sugar sugar-cane sugar-estates swizzle thousand tion town Treaty of Amiens trees Trinidad valleys vessels visited voyage West Indian West Indies Windward Islands wonderful
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13 ページ - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
244 ページ - ... it was not until after the beginning of the present century that Grenada began to recover from all the accumulation of horrors that had for so long brooded over the island and threatened to reduce it to an uninhabited wilderness.
108 ページ - ... where they must sojourn in sugar and molasses till their mortgages will let them live elsewhere. They call England their home, though many of them have never been there ; they talk of writing home and going home, and pique themselves more on knowing the probable result of a contested election in England, than on mending their roads, establishing a police, or purifying a prison. The French colonist deliberately expatriates himself; the Englishman never.
77 ページ - I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. M. Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.