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AMERICA'S EXPANSION.*

... writes Captainan E is the true route), will introduceanewcom m j ema, and new international rivarie, whic will render the Caribbean Sea one of the world's strategically most vital quarters. Over that Nsa and the canal, and the lands, isalar, or con- tnental ...

PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE

... simulated. Among the Caribbeans, HUMBOLDT says, to such an extent do all the tribes depend on aggression for their wives, that the women of every tribe were found to belong to different tribes, and nowhere were the men and women of the Caribbean race found to ...

PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE

... simulated. Among the Caribbeans, HUMBOLDT says, to such an extent do all the tribes depend on aggression for their wives, that the women of every tribe were found to belong to different tribes, and nowhere were the men and women of the Caribbean race found to ...

THE LOST HISTORIES OF AMERICA

... (London Tti~bner. aSSA.) evidently point to American countries or districts. Cerberus, for instance, clangs both with the Caribbean Sea and with the Carib Indians, who inhabit the West India Islands. Moreover, Haiti is undeniably the same as IHades, for ...

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,ooo feet, the summits being often concealed bay floating clouds. Their steep sides are covered with ...

NEW BOOKS

... ery, continues to br fasciniate succoodingt generations, so that the ar lonely occupalnt of the dosert island iu the Wv. Caribbean Sea is as real It personage to most P;1 people as any one of their acunaintances. In Defoe's itiseellanieous writings there ...

LITERATURE

... with a strong belief in its le accuracy; and it will be seen by the following pas- ci sage, descriptive of a sunset in the Caribbean Sea, Pi that the author is able to depict with minute fidelity Be an appearance not easily referable to ordinary T standards ...

MR. PAYN'S ROBINSONIAD

... Crusoe, in Morgan as in Friday, much less in a social anomaly like St. Tames's-street as in that island near the mouth of the Caribbean sea, which has been idiotically identified with Juan Fernandez-as if even in a novel a ship could jump across a whole continent ...

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

... (Dublin: Gill.) [A small volume of patriotic verse, selected from various sources. Pp. 80, cloth.] SALMON, C. S. ' The Caribbean Confederation. (Cassell. is. 6d.) [This little work contains a plan for the union of the fifteen British West Indian colonies; ...

THE DRAMA IN BERLIN

... recognised and comnplied with by the composer. The scene opens amidst tropical surroundings; it repre- sents an island in the Caribbean Sea. A Portuguese sailor, named Gonsalva, was wrecked upon the island years before, and lives in compulsory exile, no vessel ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1894
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1367 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

KING GEORGE'S MIDDY*

... masterly ease. -- And now, by way of valedictory remark, to indicate a trivial error. Spanish Main (p. 459) was not the Caribbean Sea, as is frequently ?? 'l was the mainland, from the Mosquito Territory to the Leeward islands ; Mr. Gilbert errs in good ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1399 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BURIED TREASURES OF THE BUCCANEERS

... well-known book Tom Cringle's Log ). Teach's house at St. Thomas is still there, and for some years he was the terror of the Caribbean Sea; he used to boast, so history records, that he had a vast treasure buried S0nmewhere, and that none but himself could ...