Bahama Saga: The Epic Story of the Bahama IslandsAuthor House, 2004 M05 21 - 360 páginas BAHAMA SAGA is a chronicle of the human presence on a unique archipelago of the Americas. The story takes its title from a few invented characters and the romantic and beautiful country of seven hundred sub-tropical islands. The confetti of Bahamian islands has, at different times, been a locus for the three races of the planet. After the original Amerindian inhabitants perished, the Bahamas remained uninhabited for nearly 150 years until people from Bermuda - largely of English and African stock - re-settled the islands commencing in 1648. Not long afterwards many more Africans were brought to the Bahamas in bondage. Their descendants today hold the destiny of the islands in their hands. The geographical location of the Bahamas allowed the islands to play a brief, but important part in the history of the modern world. The eastern islands protrude out into the Atlantic Ocean so as to make them one of the nearest parts of the Americas to Europe and it was here that an explorer from Europe made a historic landfall at what, for him at least, was a 'New World. It was just over five hundred years ago that Christopher Columbus in 1492 sailed the ocean blue. The islands on the western side are a mere 50 miles from the United States. Throughout time, events on the North American continent have had a major affect upon the history of the Bahama Islands as this well-written and intriguing story relates. |
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... young men . Far ahead , the small vanguard had heard cries which they realised were from the other bank of the river . To their great surprise they could see in the distance that their kinsmen were alive . When the young men drew level ...
... young men tended to be fairly impassive and spoke sparingly in the fluid Tol language of their mainland ancestors . On this day Tsgot and his friends were following a line of seaweed that they knew often concealed larger fish feeding ...
... young mother with a child at her breast mouthed an obvious fact : .we are almost destitute of food except for conch ! " t Tsgot was able to give the settlers some of the salted meat they were carrying . Another voice from the crowd ...
... young woman asked, “...have you any news from my family on the great island? - my natal mother is kin to the chief named Moua...” Tsgot had heard of the Casamiroid chief of a village neighbouring his own and was able to assure her that ...
... His colleagues found the brusquely spoken command difficult to accept with equanimity . But Tsgot gradually managed to persuade the young seamen by asking them to consider that a great adventure might lie 30 PART ONE.
Contenido
CHAPTER 4 | 75 |
CHAPTER 6 | 109 |
PART | 131 |
CHAPTER 7 | 195 |
RED WHITE AND TRUE BLUE 17701800 | 217 |
EMANCIPATION THE BLOCKADE 18011899 | 237 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1900 | 267 |
PRIDE PREJUDICE PROGRESS 1950 | 291 |
EPILOGUE | 315 |
Appendix A Which was the first island discovered | 329 |
APPENDIX E Petition to the Right Honourable | 337 |