. The earth and its inhabitants .. . V^'bO r/°'it of" breenwich 75'2b ntolO Fathoms. Depths. 10 to 100 Fathoms. 10{ Fathoms and upwards. 12 Miles. vador, met with the repulse which was avenged by the conquest of Jamaica. Les Cayes was the scene of a still more memorable event in 1816, when Simon Bolivar organised in this place the expedition which led to the overthrow of Spanish rule in South America. The Ile-à -Yache, by which the Bay of Cayes is half closed, served at one time as a place of exile for over 450 American negroes. Thousands of slaves set free by the war had taken refuge in
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . V^'bO r/°'it of" breenwich 75'2b ntolO Fathoms. Depths. 10 to 100 Fathoms. 10{ Fathoms and upwards. 12 Miles. vador, met with the repulse which was avenged by the conquest of Jamaica. Les Cayes was the scene of a still more memorable event in 1816, when Simon Bolivar organised in this place the expedition which led to the overthrow of Spanish rule in South America. The Ile-à -Yache, by which the Bay of Cayes is half closed, served at one time as a place of exile for over 450 American negroes. Thousands of slaves set free by the war had taken refuge in 1863 under the walls of Fortress Monroe in Yirginia, and the Washington Government, wishing to get rid of them, sent batches as colonists to various parts of the West Indies and Central America. As many as 5,000 of these freedmen had been destined for the He à -Yache, which
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