The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . StcovForcLs G-eo crap kical ~Estab * BARBADOS 89 HISTORY. The actual date of the discovery of Barbadosis uncertain, but it is said that it was visited by somePortuguese in 1536, who called the island Los Barbudos after the bearded fig-trees which they found there, and leftbehind them a stock of pigs. It was not until 1605 thatthe British took possession of the island. In that year thecrew of a vessel called the Oliph Blossome, fitted out by SirOliph Leigh with stores an
The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . StcovForcLs G-eo crap kical ~Estab * BARBADOS 89 HISTORY. The actual date of the discovery of Barbadosis uncertain, but it is said that it was visited by somePortuguese in 1536, who called the island Los Barbudos after the bearded fig-trees which they found there, and leftbehind them a stock of pigs. It was not until 1605 thatthe British took possession of the island. In that year thecrew of a vessel called the Oliph Blossome, fitted out by SirOliph Leigh with stores and settlers for Guiana, landed onthe leeward coast and erected a cross, inscribing on a treenear by, James K. of E. and of this Island. The actualsettlement was not, however, effected until twenty-oneyears later, when Sir William Courteen, a wealthy Londonmerchant, hearing glowing accounts of Barbados from thecrew of one of his vessels, which was compelled, throughstress of weather, to touch there on the way from Brazil,decided to equip an expedition and send out settlers to he did under the protection of the Ear
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