The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 SANTA CEUZ. 433 During the first years of its commercial decay, the Danish Government offered St. Thomas and St. John to the United States for £1,000,000, and the inhabitants, when consulted, gave their unanimous consent to the arrangement ; but the offer was declined, the price demanded being regarded as too high. St. John. St. John, which follows east of St. Thomas, does not, like its neighbour, lie in the track of trading vessels, and its port of Coral Bay, on the east side, although said to b
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 SANTA CEUZ. 433 During the first years of its commercial decay, the Danish Government offered St. Thomas and St. John to the United States for £1,000,000, and the inhabitants, when consulted, gave their unanimous consent to the arrangement ; but the offer was declined, the price demanded being regarded as too high. St. John. St. John, which follows east of St. Thomas, does not, like its neighbour, lie in the track of trading vessels, and its port of Coral Bay, on the east side, although said to be the best harbour of refuge in the Antilles during cyclones, is visited only by fishing-smacks and other small craft. The English call it Crawl Bay, a rig-. 209.—ViEGiN Islands. Scale 1 ; 400,00i). 68-5 West or breenwicK 66'45 Oto 12 Fathoms. Depths. 12 to 50 Fathoms 50 Fathoms and upwards. 9 Miles. corruption either of the Spanish Corral ('enclosure'), or of Coral, from the reefs encircling the harbour. The capital of the island is merely an obscure village on the north side. Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, the third Danish island, so named by Columbus at the time of his second voyage, was inhabited by Caribs when the Spaniards arrived. But as it possessed no precious metals, the strangers soon quitted it without massacring the natives. But the Spaniards were succeeded by English buccaneers, and these by the French, who sold the island to the Knights of Malta in 1(350. Thus the ancient Ayay of the Caribs passed from hand to hand, until at last it was sold by 61
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