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Page lxxix
... Amazon basin . But here their chances were considerably less than on the Oyapok or Essequibo . For , in addition to the difficulties normally incidental to colonisation , they were handicapped by the jealous rivalry of the Dutch and the ...
... Amazon basin . But here their chances were considerably less than on the Oyapok or Essequibo . For , in addition to the difficulties normally incidental to colonisation , they were handicapped by the jealous rivalry of the Dutch and the ...
Page lxxxiii
... Amazon and annihilated this ( the last ) English settlement on the Great River . Thus far , then , the English pioneers had made little impression in their efforts to penetrate and occupy the vast rich region explored by Raleigh . Yet ...
... Amazon and annihilated this ( the last ) English settlement on the Great River . Thus far , then , the English pioneers had made little impression in their efforts to penetrate and occupy the vast rich region explored by Raleigh . Yet ...
Page lxxxv
... Amazon , and finally that the latter were to receive no food or supplies till they had so removed themselves . With this project Thornton violently disagreed . Possibly , he says , the Amazon was the better site ; " but that a Colonie ...
... Amazon , and finally that the latter were to receive no food or supplies till they had so removed themselves . With this project Thornton violently disagreed . Possibly , he says , the Amazon was the better site ; " but that a Colonie ...
Contents
BIBLIOGRAPHY | ix |
ST CHRISTOPHERS NEVIS AND BARBADOS | 1 |
ii Narrative of the First Settlement of St Chris | 18 |
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