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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... rail . I first drove to the old historical plantation of Cherry Garden , now owned by the Hon . Chief Magistrate Mares - Caux , where I dined and spent the night . This was the night before the full moon , and the view from Cherry ...
... rail . I first drove to the old historical plantation of Cherry Garden , now owned by the Hon . Chief Magistrate Mares - Caux , where I dined and spent the night . This was the night before the full moon , and the view from Cherry ...
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... rail to Spanish Town , the former capital , and the next day , in six hours by rail , 29.
... rail to Spanish Town , the former capital , and the next day , in six hours by rail , 29.
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... rail , to Montpelier , which is a rich grazing and fruit and sugar country . A drive of ten miles from Montpelier ... railway conductors , guards , and engineers are black or colored . The commissioned officers are , of course ...
... rail , to Montpelier , which is a rich grazing and fruit and sugar country . A drive of ten miles from Montpelier ... railway conductors , guards , and engineers are black or colored . The commissioned officers are , of course ...
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... rail that afternoon to Santa Clara , the following day to Matanzas , and the next morning to Havana , where I found that friends I had expected to meet had had to return home . The yacht was nearly four days going from Cienfuegos to ...
... rail that afternoon to Santa Clara , the following day to Matanzas , and the next morning to Havana , where I found that friends I had expected to meet had had to return home . The yacht was nearly four days going from Cienfuegos to ...
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... rail . The yacht arrived at Fortress Monroe early April 9th . We sailed to Norfolk and afterwards up the Chesapeake and to Baltimore , where we arrived April 14th . I returned by rail to New York April 15th , almost exactly three months ...
... rail . The yacht arrived at Fortress Monroe early April 9th . We sailed to Norfolk and afterwards up the Chesapeake and to Baltimore , where we arrived April 14th . I returned by rail to New York April 15th , almost exactly three months ...
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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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