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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... Pelée we tacked close inshore and sailed along the front of the dead city of St. Pierre . We anchored that evening at Fort - de - France . The views of Mt. Pelée and St. Pierre , and the great changes since the year before , were most ...
... Pelée we tacked close inshore and sailed along the front of the dead city of St. Pierre . We anchored that evening at Fort - de - France . The views of Mt. Pelée and St. Pierre , and the great changes since the year before , were most ...
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... Pelée as far as Fontaine Chaude , where a considerable stream of hot sulphur - water then flowed out of the mountain . Fontaine Chaude was , in my opinion , the precise point where the side of the mountain blew out and destroyed St ...
... Pelée as far as Fontaine Chaude , where a considerable stream of hot sulphur - water then flowed out of the mountain . Fontaine Chaude was , in my opinion , the precise point where the side of the mountain blew out and destroyed St ...
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... Pelée longer than we liked , for we had learned from an eye - witness that at a recent eruption the hot sand had spread westward about five miles from shore , turning the surface of the sea to steam . We passed close to Dominica , but ...
... Pelée longer than we liked , for we had learned from an eye - witness that at a recent eruption the hot sand had spread westward about five miles from shore , turning the surface of the sea to steam . We passed close to Dominica , but ...
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... Pelée eruption , and showed us some interesting stereopticon pictures of St. Pierre , Mt. Pelée , etc. On my visit in 1902 , I had found Mr. Aymé a man of marked ability and intelligence . As he had been promptly on the ground after the ...
... Pelée eruption , and showed us some interesting stereopticon pictures of St. Pierre , Mt. Pelée , etc. On my visit in 1902 , I had found Mr. Aymé a man of marked ability and intelligence . As he had been promptly on the ground after the ...
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... 8 Nymphs , 10 Ober , F. A. , 25 , 26 Olympia , 8 Orange Town , 21 Ozama River , 23 , 24 P Patents , 17 Mt. Pelée , 12 , 19 , 20 Muriel , yacht , 35 Peasant proprietors , 29 Philipsburg , 9 Pitons , 15 Pointe - à - Pitre , 19 44.
... 8 Nymphs , 10 Ober , F. A. , 25 , 26 Olympia , 8 Orange Town , 21 Ozama River , 23 , 24 P Patents , 17 Mt. Pelée , 12 , 19 , 20 Muriel , yacht , 35 Peasant proprietors , 29 Philipsburg , 9 Pitons , 15 Pointe - à - Pitre , 19 44.
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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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