The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... American union and British plantations - Original conquest of the West Indies PAGE 1 CHAPTER II . In the train for Southampton - Morning papers - The new ' Locksley Hall ' - Past and present - The ' Moselle ' -Heavy weather - The Petrel ...
... American union and British plantations - Original conquest of the West Indies PAGE 1 CHAPTER II . In the train for Southampton - Morning papers - The new ' Locksley Hall ' - Past and present - The ' Moselle ' -Heavy weather - The Petrel ...
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... American - Constitution of Dominica - Land at Roseau • CHAPTER XI . Curiosities in Dominica - Nights in the tropics - English and Catholic churches - The market place at Roseau - Fishing extraordinary -A storm - Dominican boatmen ...
... American - Constitution of Dominica - Land at Roseau • CHAPTER XI . Curiosities in Dominica - Nights in the tropics - English and Catholic churches - The market place at Roseau - Fishing extraordinary -A storm - Dominican boatmen ...
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... American visitors - A Moravian missionary - The modern Radical creed • CHAPTER XVI . . 208 Jamaican hospitality - Cherry Garden - George William Gordon— The Gordon riots - Governor Eyre - A dispute and its conse- quences Jamaican ...
... American visitors - A Moravian missionary - The modern Radical creed • CHAPTER XVI . . 208 Jamaican hospitality - Cherry Garden - George William Gordon— The Gordon riots - Governor Eyre - A dispute and its conse- quences Jamaican ...
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... American union and British plantations - Original conquest of the West Indies . THE Colonial Exhibition has come and gone . Delegates from our great self - governed dependencies have met and consulted together , and have determined upon ...
... American union and British plantations - Original conquest of the West Indies . THE Colonial Exhibition has come and gone . Delegates from our great self - governed dependencies have met and consulted together , and have determined upon ...
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... American republic , to which geographically they more properly belonged . Representative assemblies under the Crown had failed to produce the content expected from them or to give an impulse to industry . The free negroes could not long ...
... American republic , to which geographically they more properly belonged . Representative assemblies under the Crown had failed to produce the content expected from them or to give an impulse to industry . The free negroes could not long ...
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