Cruising in the Caribbean with a Camera: Lecture Delivered May 7, 1903 at the New York Yacht Club Including Description of Globular Naval Battery Invented by the Author |
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... Hayti , Jamaica , and Cuba . 1 One hundred and forty - six stereopticon views were used in this lecture . A few of these views are here represented . 1 Before I left New York , January 17th , the 3 LECTURE GIVEN AT THE NEW YORK ...
... Hayti , Jamaica , and Cuba . 1 One hundred and forty - six stereopticon views were used in this lecture . A few of these views are here represented . 1 Before I left New York , January 17th , the 3 LECTURE GIVEN AT THE NEW YORK ...
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... Hayti , -a contrast as startling as that between St. Pierre as I saw it last year , and the dead St. Pierre that I have now visited . I think that few in our community know much of the interests and beauties surrounding the Caribbean ...
... Hayti , -a contrast as startling as that between St. Pierre as I saw it last year , and the dead St. Pierre that I have now visited . I think that few in our community know much of the interests and beauties surrounding the Caribbean ...
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Lecture Delivered May 7, 1903 at the New York Yacht Club Including Description of Globular Naval Battery Invented by the Author Anson Phelps Stokes. 7 . Bra Santo Domingo . ISLAND OF HAYTI MARCH 3d we sailed.
Lecture Delivered May 7, 1903 at the New York Yacht Club Including Description of Globular Naval Battery Invented by the Author Anson Phelps Stokes. 7 . Bra Santo Domingo . ISLAND OF HAYTI MARCH 3d we sailed.
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... Hayti , but did not land . Jacmel is an open roadstead , and the sea was rolling in , as there was a little south in the wind that day . Even the mail - steamers seldom anchor there . The island of Hayti , seen from the south , has not ...
... Hayti , but did not land . Jacmel is an open roadstead , and the sea was rolling in , as there was a little south in the wind that day . Even the mail - steamers seldom anchor there . The island of Hayti , seen from the south , has not ...
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... Hayti since its freedom , only one has escaped being either shot or de- ported . For accounts showing how civilization has retrogressed in Hayti in the last hundred years , during which time the negroes have " enjoyed self - government ...
... Hayti since its freedom , only one has escaped being either shot or de- ported . For accounts showing how civilization has retrogressed in Hayti in the last hundred years , during which time the negroes have " enjoyed self - government ...
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anchored ANSON PHELPS STOKES Ariadne armor bananas barbettes BATTERY U.S. LETTERS battle-ship BERTH British Captain Caribbean Sea Castries Cherry Garden cliff coast Colonial colored Columbus Croix cruise Cuba Diamond Rock dined Dominica drove eruption feet flag-ship FLOATING BATTERY Fontaine Chaude Fort-de-France Fredericksted Fruit Company GLOBULAR BATTERY U.S. Government House GRANTED APRIL Grenada Grenadines Guadeloupe harbor Havana Hayti island Jacmel Jamaica Kingston Kitts land large guns launch lecture LETTERS PATENT Lucia Mares-Caux Martinique Matuba miles mountain Naval night Ozama Ozama River passed close Pelée Pierre plantations political equality Ponce Port Antonio Porto Rico Positive G. M. purposes set race rail Rear-Admiral RESERVE COAL sailed past San Juan Santo Domingo Sea Fox shore sloop-of-war Soufrière Soufrière St spherical floating bat Squadron substantially spherical floating sugar Terre tons trade-winds Trident Trinidad U.S. LETTERS PATENT upper deck Vincent Virgin visited West Indies wind Yachtsmen YORK YACHT CLUB
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