. The storied West Indies . d evermaintained their independence. Some of them dis-played silver medals which their ancestors had re-ceived in the time of the Georges, and these relics, aswell as the stipulations under which they had come tothe white mans assistance, carried the memory backto those days when the Maroons were a terror and amenace to Jamaica. Since the emancipation, owing to the scarcity oflabor and the consequent depression in the sugar-rais-ing industry, more attention has been paid to thegrowing of bananas and other tropical fruits, with 222 TIIK STORIED WEST INDIKS the result
. The storied West Indies . d evermaintained their independence. Some of them dis-played silver medals which their ancestors had re-ceived in the time of the Georges, and these relics, aswell as the stipulations under which they had come tothe white mans assistance, carried the memory backto those days when the Maroons were a terror and amenace to Jamaica. Since the emancipation, owing to the scarcity oflabor and the consequent depression in the sugar-rais-ing industry, more attention has been paid to thegrowing of bananas and other tropical fruits, with 222 TIIK STORIED WEST INDIKS the result that the black proprietors bave greatlyincreased in number during the past i<n years. They;ir lands in the mountains, and, ;is thelargest fruit plantation in the world, containing fortythousand acres, lies adjacent i the M!oore Townregion, the Maroons also are becoming interested, andare turning from the hunting f wild bogs to tillingland in the valleys devoted i banana Aboriginal mealing atones, Jamaica CHAPTEE XVII PUERTO BIOO AND THE VIRGIN ISLES Puerto Rioo, popularly though improperly calledPorto Rico, was one of the first of the islands to becolonized by settlers from Hispaniola, though notuntil seventeen years after its discovery by Colum-bus. After the Endians of the Higuey, the easternprovince of Hispaniola, had been subjugated, Gov-ernor Ovando sent thither as his lieutenant a sol-dier- who had boon prominent in the conquest, namedPonce do Loon. He was a veteran campaigner, hav-ing taken part in the wars with the Moors in Spain,and had come to the Now World with Columbus onhis second voyage. He was with him when he landedat Aguadilla to water his fleet, and could not butnotice its beauty and fertility. The fleet remained here two days, says PeterMartyr the historian, without seeing an there was a spacious walls from the shore, formedwith trees, interwoven al the top like an arbor, whichled to a village of twelve houses placed
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