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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... Jamaica faces the northeast trade- winds , and has about three times as much rain- fall as the southern side of the island . The mountain and coast scenery of Jamaica is justly celebrated for grandeur and rare beauty . The tropical ...
... Jamaica faces the northeast trade- winds , and has about three times as much rain- fall as the southern side of the island . The mountain and coast scenery of Jamaica is justly celebrated for grandeur and rare beauty . The tropical ...
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... , 1903 at the New York Yacht Club Including Description of Globular Naval Battery Invented by the Author Anson Phelps Stokes. Scene near Port Antonio . Washing clothes in Jamaica . Sea Fox , in cruising trim . Sea Fox ,
... , 1903 at the New York Yacht Club Including Description of Globular Naval Battery Invented by the Author Anson Phelps Stokes. Scene near Port Antonio . Washing clothes in Jamaica . Sea Fox , in cruising trim . Sea Fox ,
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... Jamaica , living under well - admin- istered laws , and being able to buy land and to sell fruit , etc. , appear happier than the inhabi- tants of the other islands . It is terrible to think how much of this prosperity may be destroyed ...
... Jamaica , living under well - admin- istered laws , and being able to buy land and to sell fruit , etc. , appear happier than the inhabi- tants of the other islands . It is terrible to think how much of this prosperity may be destroyed ...
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... JAMAICA , HAYTI , AND SANTO DOMINGO COMPARED THE successful government of Jamaica , where there are nearly one hundred colored and black persons to one white , is a very important study for American statesmen . Two and one - half per ...
... JAMAICA , HAYTI , AND SANTO DOMINGO COMPARED THE successful government of Jamaica , where there are nearly one hundred colored and black persons to one white , is a very important study for American statesmen . Two and one - half per ...
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... Jamaica with those in the neighboring island of Hayti . At about the close of the seventeenth century , Hayti was the richest colony in the world . A century later it contained very many splendid estates , noble houses , and a rich and ...
... Jamaica with those in the neighboring island of Hayti . At about the close of the seventeenth century , Hayti was the richest colony in the world . A century later it contained very many splendid estates , noble houses , and a rich and ...
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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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