The West IndiesClarendon Press, 1905 - 348 páginas |
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America Antigua Assembly Bahamas Barbadians Barbados Belize Bermudas Bermudian Britain British colony British Guiana British Honduras buccaneers Caicos Caribs Carlisle century chap coast cocoa colonists Columbus continent Council Crown cultivation district Dominica Dutch early east East Falkland eastern England English Essequibo European export Falkland French given Governor grant Grenada Guadeloupe Harbour Hispaniola hurricane Imperial industry inhabitants Jamaica King Kitts labour land Leeward Islands Lord Willoughby Lucia mainland mainly Maroons Martinique Montserrat Mosquito mountains natives negroes Nevis northern Orinoco parish peace plantations population Port Port of Spain possession revenue river sent settled settlement settlers ships shores slavery slaves southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles sugar tion Tobago took town trade treaty Trinidad Turks Vincent Virgin Islands voyage West Indian West Indian colonies West Indian islands West Indies western side Windward Islands
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Página 239 - For a while, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Página 14 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Página 11 - The Governor and Company of the City of London for the Plantation of the Somers Islands...
Página 10 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Página 101 - We have done the like to the Windward English Islands; and both in England and Scotland and Ireland, you will have what men and women we can well transport.
Página 176 - ... that is to say, upon all dead commodities of the growth or produce of this island, that shall be shipped off the same, shall be paid to our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors for ever, four and a half in specie for every five score.
Página 62 - ... with all the other colonies of France, though it no doubt retarded, had not been able to stop its progress altogether. The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. It is now the most important of the sugar colonies of the West Indies, and its produce is said to be greater than that of all the English sugar colonies put together.
Página 329 - Here and there a peak or ridge of grey quartz rock breaks through the smooth surface. Every one has heard of the climate of these regions; it may be compared to that which is experienced at the height of between one and two thousand feet, on the mountains of North Wales; having however less sunshine and less frost, but more wind and rain.
Página 19 - Bermuda, where there is a very considerable magazine of powder in a remote part of the island ; and the inhabitants are well disposed not only to our cause in general, but to assist in this enterprise in particular.
Página 308 - Assiento,] as likewise without prejudice to any liberty or power, which the subjects of Great Britain enjoyed before, either through right, sufferance, or indulgence.