. The storied West Indies . rrow hea jadeite and most beautifully polished. been found in man;and on the rhere the; their original jymarkable eolleeti imp] or. er found that di St at, about Some Cj ad buried thorn hundred ago, ident the brought light—two hundred imp]or ar, Jr. this aboriginal armor , a giant of them ing more than six pounds each and me*inch acr< : arrior- of those day earned and cross* m Sea in their Xhai ! i • - 1 s : Columbus from Guadalupe no terry through the emerald chain of the Cariblparting from a sheltered harboi ond-ear moun- tain, rit dropping anchor in a tranded
. The storied West Indies . rrow hea jadeite and most beautifully polished. been found in man;and on the rhere the; their original jymarkable eolleeti imp] or. er found that di St at, about Some Cj ad buried thorn hundred ago, ident the brought light—two hundred imp]or ar, Jr. this aboriginal armor , a giant of them ing more than six pounds each and me*inch acr< : arrior- of those day earned and cross* m Sea in their Xhai ! i • - 1 s : Columbus from Guadalupe no terry through the emerald chain of the Cariblparting from a sheltered harboi ond-ear moun- tain, rit dropping anchor in a tranded and tth the perfi afted from virfi 76 THE STORIED WEST INDIES bays mirrored the caravels and caracks as they stolepast gloomy headlands; swallow-shaped flying fishesskimmed the waves, and fell, perchance, into the boatsdrifting astern the larger vessels; flocks of parrotsnew screaming overhead, sweet-voiced songsters war-bled in the thickets near the beaches, and thoseairy sprites, the humming birds, glanced athwart the. A Carib canoe. sky. Ah! those were Edenic islands that the Span-iards brought to view one after another, fit abodesfor man in his best estate; yet they were then givenover to fierce Carib prowlers, soon to be supplantedby yet more fiendish Spaniards, whose atrocities wereto convert these paradisaical retreats into a wilder-ness of woe. At this time, however, the evil spirits which soonafter desolated the islands had not been let loose, first asb -77777: 7 7- 77 It was with feeling of mingled thankfulness and erenee that Columbus visited and named theislan - as they came within the raiii : -ion. and lay those names still remain. : st 1 them beingS] anish. Thus Gnadalnpe (or Guadeloupe, as theFrench, its present :wnbis, /_ it ~as named aftera famous moi stery in Sj ain: Montserrat, after an-other; Saint Christopher- was - named, it is said,because the peak : its rntral mountain (now kn Mount Misery reminded the Admiral of the_ jd giant win 0 the infan* J
Size: 1859px × 1344px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthoroberfrederickafrederi, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
