The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 páginas |
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... Cuba - A Canadian commissioner - Havana - The Moro- The city and harbour - Cuban money - American visitors - The cathedral - Tomb of Columbus - New friends - The late rebellion -Slave emancipation - Spain and progress - A bull fight 243 ...
... Cuba - A Canadian commissioner - Havana - The Moro- The city and harbour - Cuban money - American visitors - The cathedral - Tomb of Columbus - New friends - The late rebellion -Slave emancipation - Spain and progress - A bull fight 243 ...
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... Cuba ; they looked at St. Domingo . They might have had both on easy terms , but they tell you that their con- stitution does not allow them to hold dependent states . What they annex they absorb , and they did not wish to absorb ...
... Cuba ; they looked at St. Domingo . They might have had both on easy terms , but they tell you that their con- stitution does not allow them to hold dependent states . What they annex they absorb , and they did not wish to absorb ...
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... Cuba will not drop its intercourse with Jamaica , Cuba falls also under the ban . The commodore had directed a case of cigars from Havana to meet him at Barbadoes . They arrived , but might not be transferred from the steamer which ...
... Cuba will not drop its intercourse with Jamaica , Cuba falls also under the ban . The commodore had directed a case of cigars from Havana to meet him at Barbadoes . They arrived , but might not be transferred from the steamer which ...
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... - ing the hold which we possess on the islands , and the longer they last the looser that hold will become . French influence is in no danger of dying out in Martinique and Guadaloupe . The Spanish race is not dying in Cuba and Puerto.
... - ing the hold which we possess on the islands , and the longer they last the looser that hold will become . French influence is in no danger of dying out in Martinique and Guadaloupe . The Spanish race is not dying in Cuba and Puerto.
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... Cuba and Puerto Rico . England will soon be no more than a name in Barbadoes and the Antilles . Having acquitted our conscience by eman- cipation , we have left our West Indian interest to sink or swim . Our principle has been to leave ...
... Cuba and Puerto Rico . England will soon be no more than a name in Barbadoes and the Antilles . Having acquitted our conscience by eman- cipation , we have left our West Indian interest to sink or swim . Our principle has been to leave ...
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