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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... cliff on earth , some nine thousand feet of rock parted from the sea by a narrow strip of bright green lowland . " How few know that , three hundred miles farther west , Santa Marta , covered with perpetual snow , and in plain view from ...
... cliff on earth , some nine thousand feet of rock parted from the sea by a narrow strip of bright green lowland . " How few know that , three hundred miles farther west , Santa Marta , covered with perpetual snow , and in plain view from ...
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... cliffs , and arrived the following morning , January 30th , at Philipsburg , the Dutch port on the island of St. Martin . Its chief export is salt . St. Martin contains thirty - eight square miles , about half belonging to France and ...
... cliffs , and arrived the following morning , January 30th , at Philipsburg , the Dutch port on the island of St. Martin . Its chief export is salt . St. Martin contains thirty - eight square miles , about half belonging to France and ...
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... The town is in two parts , connected by a tunnel which runs through a cliff on which the old fort stands . The north harbor is an open roadstead . The south harbor is landlocked . We dined and spent the night at Government House , 14.
... The town is in two parts , connected by a tunnel which runs through a cliff on which the old fort stands . The north harbor is an open roadstead . The south harbor is landlocked . We dined and spent the night at Government House , 14.
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... cliff there , an- chored in the harbor of Orange Town . Holland owns this island , which was once very pros- perous ... cliffs on the western side of the Dutch island of Saba . It was too rough to land , but the mountains were ...
... cliff there , an- chored in the harbor of Orange Town . Holland owns this island , which was once very pros- perous ... cliffs on the western side of the Dutch island of Saba . It was too rough to land , but the mountains were ...
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... cliff . But it is seen from the sea through a narrow gorge . We then sailed to Fredericksted , St. Croix , drove across the island on a perfect road , passing a number of fine - looking sugar - works , to Chris- tiansted , where we had ...
... cliff . But it is seen from the sea through a narrow gorge . We then sailed to Fredericksted , St. Croix , drove across the island on a perfect road , passing a number of fine - looking sugar - works , to Chris- tiansted , where we had ...
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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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