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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... colored government in the neigh- boring island of 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 ...
... colored government in the neigh- boring island of 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 ...
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... colored people , and it is feared that an explosion more serious than a volcanic eruption may break out there . Our next anchorage was at the British island of Montserrat . The people here appear more poverty - stricken than at any ...
... colored people , and it is feared that an explosion more serious than a volcanic eruption may break out there . Our next anchorage was at the British island of Montserrat . The people here appear more poverty - stricken than at any ...
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... colored man's govern- ment . Hayti , the western part of the island , has a black man's government . These two classes here , as in some other parts of the Caribbean Sea , hate each other . In most of the islands , the distinction ...
... colored man's govern- ment . Hayti , the western part of the island , has a black man's government . These two classes here , as in some other parts of the Caribbean Sea , hate each other . In most of the islands , the distinction ...
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... colored and black persons to one white , is a very important study for American statesmen . Two and one - half per cent . of the people are registered as white , but some of these are known to have an admixture of black blood . It has ...
... colored and black persons to one white , is a very important study for American statesmen . Two and one - half per cent . of the people are registered as white , but some of these are known to have an admixture of black blood . It has ...
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... 1804 , ordered the massacre of all whites . The colored Republic of Santo Domingo drove out or killed almost all whites and blacks . The government of Jamaica has been able to do so much for its people , notwithstanding the destruction 31.
... 1804 , ordered the massacre of all whites . The colored Republic of Santo Domingo drove out or killed almost all whites and blacks . The government of Jamaica has been able to do so much for its people , notwithstanding the destruction 31.
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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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