The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... thought it quite certain that something would happen which would compel the British Government to interfere again , whether we liked it or not . Liberty in Hayti had been followed by a massacre of the French inhabitants , and the French ...
... thought it quite certain that something would happen which would compel the British Government to interfere again , whether we liked it or not . Liberty in Hayti had been followed by a massacre of the French inhabitants , and the French ...
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... thought of it , and evidently wishing that all the parliamentary orators on the globe were in the same place . In his wanderings he had been lately at the Darien Canal , and gave me a wonderful account of the condition of things there ...
... thought of it , and evidently wishing that all the parliamentary orators on the globe were in the same place . In his wanderings he had been lately at the Darien Canal , and gave me a wonderful account of the condition of things there ...
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... thought that the conse- quences might have been serious . In careless imagination of superiority they let the chance go by . They kept at a distance , firing long shots , which as it was did considerable damage . The two following days ...
... thought that the conse- quences might have been serious . In careless imagination of superiority they let the chance go by . They kept at a distance , firing long shots , which as it was did considerable damage . The two following days ...
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... thought of I was introduced to cocktail , with which I had to make closer acquaintance afterwards , cocktail being the established corrective of West Indian languor , with- out which life is impossible . It is a compound of rum , sugar ...
... thought of I was introduced to cocktail , with which I had to make closer acquaintance afterwards , cocktail being the established corrective of West Indian languor , with- out which life is impossible . It is a compound of rum , sugar ...
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... thoughts . were on going home - home out of so miserable an exile.1 or out . I have been told that this picture is overdrawn , that Grenada is the most prosperous of the Antilles , that its exports are increasing , that English owners ...
... thoughts . were on going home - home out of so miserable an exile.1 or out . I have been told that this picture is overdrawn , that Grenada is the most prosperous of the Antilles , that its exports are increasing , that English owners ...
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