The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... shore his thousand galleys streaming down to the Gulf of Salamis , was more assured that his prize was in his hands than De Grasse on the deck of the ' Ville de Paris , ' the finest ship then floating on the seas , when he heard that ...
... shore his thousand galleys streaming down to the Gulf of Salamis , was more assured that his prize was in his hands than De Grasse on the deck of the ' Ville de Paris , ' the finest ship then floating on the seas , when he heard that ...
Page 37
... shore in a boat with a white awning over it , rowed by a crew of black boatmen , large , fleshy , shining on the skin with ample feeding and shining in the face with innocent happiness . They rowed well . They were amusing . There was a ...
... shore in a boat with a white awning over it , rowed by a crew of black boatmen , large , fleshy , shining on the skin with ample feeding and shining in the face with innocent happiness . They rowed well . They were amusing . There was a ...
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... shore to crest . Till late in the last century it was the headquarters of the Caribs , who kept up a savage independence there , recruited by runaway slaves from Barba- does or elsewhere . Brandy and Sir Ralph Abercrombie reduced them ...
... shore to crest . Till late in the last century it was the headquarters of the Caribs , who kept up a savage independence there , recruited by runaway slaves from Barba- does or elsewhere . Brandy and Sir Ralph Abercrombie reduced them ...
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... shore . Grenada was , like St. Vincent , the home for centuries of man - eating Caribs , French for a century and a half , and finally , after many desperate struggles for it , was ceded to England at the peace of Versailles . It is ...
... shore . Grenada was , like St. Vincent , the home for centuries of man - eating Caribs , French for a century and a half , and finally , after many desperate struggles for it , was ceded to England at the peace of Versailles . It is ...
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... shore , and we had to wait for him . The offshore night breeze had not yet risen . The harbour was smooth as a looking glass , and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water . The silence was only broken by the whistle of the ...
... shore , and we had to wait for him . The offshore night breeze had not yet risen . The harbour was smooth as a looking glass , and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water . The silence was only broken by the whistle of the ...
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