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“...and up. Somerset!
t Summer side, $4.00 per day.
I In summer the Bermudiana, Hamilton, and Princess are
j closed, but the other hotels remain open and accept guests
j at slightly reduced rates. Bermuda’s tourist business being
I mainly with America, hotel rates are quoted in dollars, and
towing to exchange fluctuations it is impossible to give the sterling
I equivalents.
j There are also throughout the Colony numerous boarding
houses, a list of which is given in folders published by the Ber-
: muda Trade Development Board and obtainable free of charge
j on application to The West India Committee, 14, Trinity Square,
’ London, E.C. 3. Furnished cottages and bungalows may be
i rented at from $300 to f3,000 for the season.
I COMMUNICATIONS. Bermuda can be reached occasionally
; direct from England in about ten days, from England via
La Rochelle in sixteen days, from New York in less than forty-
t eight hours, and from Halifax, N.S., in four days (see Appendix I).
I The islands have admirable...”
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“...ANTIGUA
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settle the island, but was driven away by want of water, and
it was not colonised until 1632, when some English from St.
Kitts under Edward, son of Sir Thomas Warner, established
themselves there. During the Commonwealth it remained
i Royalist, and was included with Virginia, Barbados, and Ber-
muda in the Imperial Act of 1650, which prohibited trade with
j those dependencies on account of their rebellious attitude
; towards the Home Government. Lord Francis Willoughby,
f lessee of the patent left by Lord Carlisle to his son, visited thé
: Leeward Islands from Barbados in 1650, and encouraged the
inhabitants to resist the Commonwealth. He was compelled
I. to relinquish the government of the islands in 1652, but he
I returned in 1663 after the Restoration, and governed until
1666, when he was lost at sea. In 1666 French troops, re-
inforced by Irish malcontents and Caribs, landed at Five Islands
, Bay and took possession of the island; but in the following
year it was ceded to...”
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“...Anthony, 257
Sibun River, 393, 395
Siccama, Baron, 382
Sierra Maestra Mts., 345
Sierra Nevada, 408, 412
Sigsbee, Captain, 352
Silk cotton trees, 280, 293, 354,
[ 363
" Silver employees," 423
Sims, James, 90
Sinai, Mt., Grenada, 154
Sinckler, Mr. E. G., no
Sion Hall, 107
Siparia, 118,119, 142, 144
Sir Timothy’s Hill, 221
Sisal hemp, 64
Skeldon, 376
Skinner, General, 309
Slavery, 36, 322, 345, 367, 385,
434
Smith, Jane Anne, 18
" S.P.G.," the, 93 •
Solberg, 325
Sombrero, 251
Somers’ Islands. See Ber-
muda
Somers, Sir George, 45, 58, 59,
60
Somerset Island, 53
Soufrière, Guadeloupe, 305
Soufrière, St. Lucia, 168, 169,
177, 180
Soufrière, St. Vincent, 5, 74,
194-7, 317
Southern Cross, 4
Southern Main Road, 134, 139,
140
South Sea Company, 36
South Soufrière, Montserrat,
»37
South-west Bay, 71
" Spanish Hat," 251
489
Spanish Main, the, 400-16
Spanish Rock, Bermuda, 45,
61
Spanish Town, 257, 260, 262,
279-85
Speightstown, 78, no
Speight, William, no .
Speyside, 145, r49, 151
Spillway, the, Panama Canal...”
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