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“...732. 6,578 22,807 23,982
1 1907-8 10,233 8,0x6 32,756 35,183
Virgin Islands. ƒ 1906-7 \ 1907-8 2,425 3,971 2,032 4,367 6,440 7,009 5,760 6,027
The latest estimates regarding population are as
follows:—
Barbados 194.518 St. Lucia 54,599
British Guiana 304,549 Antigua 34,953
Jamaica 830,361 St. Kitts 30,813
Trinidad 3ï6,I4I Nevis 14,076
Tobago 30,636 Dominica 3L943
Grenada 70,783 Anguilla 4,400
St. Vincent 51,779 Montserrat 13,315
The Virgin Islands 4,908
Errata.
Page 129, line 13, for Pa. real Mass.
Page 201, line 10, for four read nearly eighteen.
Page 220, line 14,for Rodney’s read Hood’s.
Page 222, last line, for Rodney read Hood....”
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“...JAMAICA 119
invited Wylie by signal to come to breakfast:
and while waiting for him the shark was caught,
and the papers were found. When Wylie came
on board the Ferret, he mentioned that he had
detained an American brig called the Nancy.
Fitton thereupon said he had her papers.
“Papers?” answered Wylie; “why, I sealed up
her papers and sent them in with her.” “Just
so,” replied Fitton, “ those were her false papers;
here are her real ones.” These papers, together
with others of an incriminating nature, found on
the Nancy some time after her capture, concealed
in the captain’s cabin, in a cask of salt pork,
“ so hard drove in that it was with difficulty they
could be taken out,” led to the condemnation
of the brig and her cargo on the 25 th of Novem-
ber 1799. It may be mentioned here that, about
three years before, the Nancy had been captured
by a French privateer, and carried into Guade-
loupe, and there condemned as American property.
The old Court-house of Kingston, in which the
case...”
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