An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . h these trifles, as-sovereignty, and soon acted as tyrants. The Caribs,contend with them by open force, took the usualmethod which weakness inspires to repel oppression; they murderedall whom tl ey found alone and defenceless. The troops that weresent to snp{»orr the infant colony destroyed all the natives they remainder of these miserable people took refuge upon a steep
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . h these trifles, as-sovereignty, and soon acted as tyrants. The Caribs,contend with them by open force, took the usualmethod which weakness inspires to repel oppression; they murderedall whom tl ey found alone and defenceless. The troops that weresent to snp{»orr the infant colony destroyed all the natives they remainder of these miserable people took refuge upon a steeprock, preferring rather to throw themselves down alive from the top ofit than to fall into the hands of an implacable enemy. The Frenchsailed this rock Le Morne des Sauteurs (the Hill of the Leapers), whichname it still retains. The French held this island till 1762, when itwas captured by the British, to whom it was confirmed by the treatyof 176SL The French, however, retook it in 1799, but restored it in1783, agreeably to the treaty of peace. Grenada has a population of about 30,000. Its government is likethat of the other British islands, consisting of a lieutenant-governor,30uncil, and house of JAMAICA. AMAICA, the largest and most valuable of the Brit-^ish West India Islands, was discovered by Columbus inhis second voyage, in 1494. It is about one hundredand sixty-five miles in length, from east to west, andits average breadth about forty miles, bearing a re-semblance to a long oval. It contains an area of>^,250 square miles, and a population of about 400,000. In)1502 Columbus was driven upon the island by a storm, and,having lost his ships, he implored the humanity of the natives,who gave him all the assistance that natural pity soon, however, grew tired of supporting strangers, and insensibly
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