The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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Page iv
... HAYTI onave L. Caicos I San Sa NICARAGUA pa Granada MOSQUITO St Andrews L RESERVE LaVache Jaeme Port an Princ E A N PtG Sto Dopin Curaçao Buen Ayre Oruba S. PUERTO RICO San Juan 1.de Vieques of Sta Cruz LSJohn LEEWARD ISLANDS E A ...
... HAYTI onave L. Caicos I San Sa NICARAGUA pa Granada MOSQUITO St Andrews L RESERVE LaVache Jaeme Port an Princ E A N PtG Sto Dopin Curaçao Buen Ayre Oruba S. PUERTO RICO San Juan 1.de Vieques of Sta Cruz LSJohn LEEWARD ISLANDS E A ...
Page vi
... Hayti - Jacmel - A walk through the town - A Jamaican planter - First sight of the Blue Mountains - Port Royal - Kingston - The Colonial Secre- tary - Gordon riots - Changes in the Jamaican constitution . CHAPTER XIII . · . 113 The ...
... Hayti - Jacmel - A walk through the town - A Jamaican planter - First sight of the Blue Mountains - Port Royal - Kingston - The Colonial Secre- tary - Gordon riots - Changes in the Jamaican constitution . CHAPTER XIII . · . 113 The ...
Page vii
... of the West Indies - English rumours - Leave Cuba - The harbour at night - The Bahama Channel - Hayti— Port au Prince - The black republic - West Indian history . 291 CHAPTER XXI . -Negro Return to Jamaica - Cherry Garden_again.
... of the West Indies - English rumours - Leave Cuba - The harbour at night - The Bahama Channel - Hayti— Port au Prince - The black republic - West Indian history . 291 CHAPTER XXI . -Negro Return to Jamaica - Cherry Garden_again.
Page viii
... CHERRY GARDEN . HAVANA , FROM THE QUARRIES PORT AU PRINCE , HAYTI " • Frontispiece · Title page To face page 72 136 171 99 " " 194 99 " " 234 258 288 ,, REESE LIBRARY OF THF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE ENGLISH IN viii CONTENTS.
... CHERRY GARDEN . HAVANA , FROM THE QUARRIES PORT AU PRINCE , HAYTI " • Frontispiece · Title page To face page 72 136 171 99 " " 194 99 " " 234 258 288 ,, REESE LIBRARY OF THF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE ENGLISH IN viii CONTENTS.
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... Hayti had been followed by a massacre of the French inhabitants , and the French settlers had done no worse than we had done to deserve the ill will of their slaves . Fortunately opinion changed in Eng- land before the experiment could ...
... Hayti had been followed by a massacre of the French inhabitants , and the French settlers had done no worse than we had done to deserve the ill will of their slaves . Fortunately opinion changed in Eng- land before the experiment could ...
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