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KING GEORGE'S MIDDY

... masterly ease. And now, by way of valedictory remark, to indicate a trivial error. The Spanish Main (p. 459) was not the Caribbean Sea, as is frequently supposed it was the mainland from the Mosquito Territory to the Leeward Islands. But Mr. Gilbert errs ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1224 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Illustrations

... One survived the battle of Bunker's Hill, when only five Grenadiers escaped. Then there was Old Billy, who died in the Caribbean Islands, whither he had accompanied the regiment from Canada. Since then the goats have been presented by Her Majesty the ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1873
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2943 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... Wedding. By D. Christie Murray. About Yorkshire. By Katherine S. Macquoid. With Six Illustrations by Thomas R. Macquoid. Caribbean Twelve per Cents. By J. Arbuthnot Wilson. The Admiral's Ward. By Mrs. Alexander. Price One Shilling. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGA ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1882
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1748 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... ROMEO AND J-U 4.1 ET- AS PERFORMED BY SINGHALESE IN COLO M BO, CEYLON SHARK- FISHING IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA-- ONE OF THE VICTIMS ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1885
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 24 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Jamaica and the War

... them selves to take up their residence, and, indeed, to transplant their homes among our fellow-countrymen who dwell in the Caribbean Sea. At the time of the last great Cuban insurrection, some six or seven and twenty years ago, when, indeed, war was imminent ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1898
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 970 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

HOW GERMANY ATTACKED THE VENEZUELAN FORTS

... minded him of Venice; he therefore named the district \t whlrh sicmifies T.iltle Venice. The gulf is a wide inlet of the Caribbean Sea extending from the peninsulas of Paraguana and Goajira to the strait a'ready referred to. The Fort of Sa.r\ Carlos and ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 380 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE CLUBMAN

... really seriously considered in Council the proposition made that Great Britain should be asked to allow her fleet in the Caribbean Sea to manoeuvre against the American fleet in those waters in mimic war, and that he did so shows what a tactful and courteous ...

Published: Wednesday 09 December 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 916 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR SPORTING SUPPLEMENT: THE GENTLE ART OF CATCHING THINGS

... OUR SPORTING SUPPLEMENT. THE GENTLE ART OF CATCHING THINGS. VIII.-- CHASING NATIVES IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA. Drawn dy W. Heath Robinson. N.B. The Editor of The Sketch prefers not to accept responsibility for the sporting intelligence of his Special Artist ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 40 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... Consul in the West Indies reports on the energy, persistence, and method with which Germany is pushing her trade in the Caribbean ports. And Imperial statistics show that never was so much horse and dog flesh eaten by Germans as at the present time. Query ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1093 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

RED TOOTH

... Bequia have villages of niggers. But for he most part they are just a broken ridge of scorched rocks thrusting out of the Caribbean barren and desolate. Nought alive but a brown pelican ever sets foot on 'em, and they're as lonely as the North Pole all ...

THE STYX

... Tortola, and Santa Cruz. Her lines were a joy to the seafaring eye, and she was pointed out as the fastest vessel in the Caribbean. But none knew much about her business, and her crew were not St. Thomas men. Captain Bastion was his own skipper, and when ...