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Caribbee cruise,: A book of the West Indies,

Author: John W Vandercook
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Category: Book

Buy Used: $4.29

Sales Rank: 5135487

Pages: 349

ASIN: B00085PELC

Publication Date: 1938
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Condition: 1938 Hardcover Edition. Good condition, including cover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, clean pages. 349pp. SKU #49BN45. Immediate shipping! Thanks!

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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CARIBBEE GfttTl-' SE Book of the West Indies BY JOHN W. VANDERCOOK Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen REYNAL & HITCHCOCK NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY JOHN W, VANDERCOOK All Rights Reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE CORNWALL PRESS, INC., CORNWALL, N, T. To Elise and Coleman and Harivood Hull . . Affectionately CONTENTS I. DISCOVERY i II. DISCORD 19 III. CUBA 41 IV. JAMAICA 65 V. HAITI 86 VI. REPUBLICA DOMINICANA 122 VII. PUERTO RICO 143 VIII. THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 163 IX. THE UNKNOWN ISLES 181 X. THE LEEWARD ISLANDS 190 XI. THE FRENCH ISLANDS 207 XII. THE WINDWARD ISLANDS 222 XIII. BARBADOES 240 XIV. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 255 XV. THE MAIN AND CURAAO 278 XVI. PANAMA ' 292 XVII. THE BAHAMAS 310 XVIII. BERMUDA 321 XIX. WAYS AND MEANS 332 INDEX 343 vii I DISCOVERY OTHERS had come first. The Greeks, in their age of wisdom, had talked of it, of a peopled land somewhere beyond the western sea; It is not likely the tale was pure fancy. In men's imagination seeds of fact may be nourished into strange forests. But some substan tial particle of truth comes first. No legend is born whole fashioned out of air. And the legend of Atlantis had substance through long years. Some evidence there must have been. But whatever it was the record of a long-oared bark of heroes that drifted west, or a tale brought back and forever remembered of a trader out of Carthage who sought some land beyond the coast of Africa the proof was lost, effaced in the dust and darkness of two thousand years. At last, when spring / ame round once more and the men of the Renaissance began their immortal rummaging in the attics of the past, the myth was found again, and followed. CARIBBEE CRUISE All myths were, in those inquiring years. With the alert new fashion, the old story now was disciplined with logic. In the 1 5th Century men knew the world was round. Long before Columbus even, Popes knew that. Virtually every one/' casually wrote Pius II, in 1481, is agreed. To the legend of lands westward was added, therefore, the confusion of partial knowledge. The confusion lay in measurement. Vastly far to the east, as travellers by land caravan had known for centuries, lay China and beyond that Japan or Zipangu, as they spelt it then. If the world was round those rich lands could be reached by sea. So much was obvious, though the trip might certainly be perilous. But the learned, those with knowledge of arcs and mathematics, insisted the distance would be unpractically great. Indeed, did the Americas not intervene, it would be and it is. The optimistic believed the distance to the coast of Asia would be slight. A popular figure, for some reason, was 700 leagues, something over 2000 mod ern miles. Some captains had actually made the journey. There is no doubt of it. But who they were no one knows now, nor ever will. They are formless, gallant figures, without destiny, name or nation. They were poets and fools; poets to have adven tured so far and so bravely, fools to have been satisfied with the quest alone, to have made no other profit from it. They made their records and went their ways. A map published by a Genoese cosmographer in 1434 and still extant, shows Cuba. The island is marked Antilia but it is not ill-drawn, nor very wrongly placed. On the page is the notation newly discovered island. The globe of a learned scholar, a Jew named Martin Behaim, issued in Columbus* DISCOVERY youth, showed Brazil. Clearly the new world had been found, the existence of trans-ocean territories established and defi nitely noted. But the trickle of facts had not sapped the giant walls of Europe's isolation. The time, perhaps, was not ripe. . . . So the Discovery was left to a travelling salesman. The father of Christopher Columbus * was a weaver. Once for a time he kept a wine and cheese shop, but he went bank rupt and was jailed for it. So he returned to wea

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