Down the Islands: A Voyage to the CaribbeesC. Scribner's Sons, 1887 - 301 من الصفحات |
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acres Aleck American anchor Anguilla Antigua arrival Barbadians Barbados Barracouta Basseterre beauty boat Bridgetown British British Guiana called cane-pieces Caribbean Islands Caribbean Sea Caribbees Caribs Christopher cliffs coast colony colored Columbus cooly creole cultivation darkies deck delightful Demerara Dominica east England English feet fleet flowers forests France French fruit grand Grenada Guadeloupe Gulf of Paria harbor of St Hayti height hills Hindu houses hundred imagined inhabitants Kitt's labor land leaving leeward looked Lucia Martinique massa matter miles Montserrat morning mountains native negroes Nevis night ocean passed picturesque Pierre pirogues Pitons plantations planters Port of Spain possession race reason rock sailed Salmagundian seen ship shore side sight steamer streets sugar sugar-cane swizzle thousand tion town trees Trinidad valleys vessels visited voyage West Indian West Indies Windward Islands wonderful
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الصفحة 13 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
الصفحة 244 - ... 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.
الصفحة 77 - Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH.
الصفحة 108 - ... 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.
الصفحة 284 - Through branches and briers if a man make way, He shall find no life but the sea-wind's, restless Night and day. The dense hard passage is blind and stifled That crawls by a track none turn to climb To the strait waste place that the years have rifled Of all but the thorns that are touched not of time.
الصفحة 77 - 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.
الصفحة 89 - Viewed from the sea, the island has a singularly bold and magnificent appearance. A dark, irregular mass of lofty mountains rises abruptly from the ocean, as if suddenly upheaved from the deep by some mighty convulsion of nature. The rugged grandeur of the island is softened on a nearer approach by the mantle of green that everywhere covers its surface, from the sea margin to the tops of the highest mountains. In sailing along the coast, the smiling valleys, deep ravines with overhanging cliffs,...
الصفحة 249 - Either of these islands in the hands of Great Britain must, while she remains a great maritime power, make her sovereign of the West Indies.