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The Island of Montserrat

... a'breadth of five miles from east to west. It is composed of a small cluster of volcanic mountain tops, rising out of the Caribbean Sea, to the height of 3,000 feet, the summits being often concealed by floating clouds. Their steep sides are covered with ...

The Island of Montserrat: WEST INDIES

... breadth of five miles from east to west. It is composed of a small cluster of volcanic mountain tops, rising out of the Caribbean Sea, to the height of 3,000 feet, the summits being often concealed by floating clouds. Their steep sides are covered with ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1895
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 975 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

A MAN WHO HELPED TO MAKE INDIA: HOW GILLESPIE BECAME THE HERO OF VELLORE

... eleven years in the West Indies, and taking a brilliant part in all the hard fighting of which the great islands of the Caribbean Sea were the theatre, he had exchanged to the command of the 19tli Dragoons, and had joined them at Arcot in June 1806. Knowing ...

Published: Wednesday 07 December 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2067 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

A Residence for Royal Visitors to Paris

... present day. Mr. Bell's boyhood was spent at Blewfields, a small town on the Mosquito Coast, on the western shore of the Caribbean Sea. His earliest recollections are those of bathing and sailing toy boats in the lagoon, with the Mosquito King and numberless ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 975 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THE YELLOW FLAG

... the departure of the steamer in which he had spent so many happy hours the ship which was carrying his destinies into the Caribbean Sea. Critics said that he had never bowled more viciously than -he did the next day when he took seven wickets of the local ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5126 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ULTIMATUM TO VENEZUELA: Scenes in the Rebellion-Ridden Republic

... stretches to Caracas and La Guaira, its port. This great buckle in the earth's crust passes on in a great curve round the Caribbean Sea, its highest points forming the Antilles, of which Martinique is one. Puerto Cabello and Maracaibo lie to the west of ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 682 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... supply is very generous indeed. The Monroe The news tbat Germany does not propose to Doctrine Withdraw her ships from the Caribbean Sea has a very great political significance, and tends to bring us nearer to the time when the United States must fight for ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1005 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: Week by Week

... committed an indiscretion in the eyes of America, for he is reported to have said that the American naval manoeuvres in Caribbean waters were an object lesson to the German Emperor. At those manoeuvres there- had been present fifty-four vessels, including ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1291 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

Round the Town: Punch's Editors--Old and New; The Rough Courtiers of Norway; Political Dining and Wining; The ..

... that the weary one of the future, in need of a change of world, will be ordered, not to the Mediterranean, but to the Caribbean. Every year the West Indies are attracting more tourists. Twelve days on board a Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.'s boat, especially ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3655 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

TWO CENTURIES OF FAME

... English furniture. No doubt there is still to be found in Jamaica, the Barbados, and scattered about among the islands of the Caribbean Sea pieces of furniture made by Gillow's back in the early half of the eighteenth century. The age of mahogany had just come ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 653 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GALAXY OF CHRISTMAS BOOKS

... and it is to recover the wealth which lay aboard her that Duncan Hay and his friends charter a yacht, and sail out on the Caribbean.] By Right of Conquest. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie.) 3s. Cd. [The adven tures of an EngUsh youth, Roger Hawkshaw, the sole ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2698 | Page: 50 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GALAXY OF CHRISTMAS BOOKS

... and it is to recover the wealth which lay aboard her that Duncan Hay and his friends charter a yacht, and sail out on the Caribbean.] By Right of Conquest. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie.) 3s. Cd. [The adven tures of an EngUsh youth, Roger Hawkshaw, the sole ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1909
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2698 | Page: 50 | Tags: Photographs